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First-aid Resources Availability and Attitudes of Senior High School Students in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana
Asian Journal of Medicine and Health,
Aims: This study aims to explore the availability of first-aid resources in Senior High Schools and the attitudes of students towards giving first-aid in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana.
Methods: A cross-sectional study design was performed. This study was conducted in three different senior high schools, namely, Ghana Senior High School, Business Senior High School and Vitting Senior High School during April - July 2020.
The study recruited 381 students across the three schools. Students were categorized per their course of study and randomly sampled to attain the sample size. The median was used to determine the likeliest response of the ‘average’ respondent and Inter-Quartile Range (IQR) was used to measure dispersion in Likert scale questions.
Results: About 57.2% of participants stated that equipped first-aid kits were not provided in dormitories. All three schools lacked fire extinguishers in the dormitories. The schools also lacked equipped sick bays. A significant relationship was found between students’ perception of school safety and their attitude towards giving first aid (p-value = 0.005).
Conclusion: All schools had implemented the Ministry of Education safety standards and guidelines to a lesser extent. It is recommended that the Ministry of Education must play its supervisory role by ensuring the implementation of safety standards and guidelines on health and safety in the schools.
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Exclusive: By dunning NATO nations to chip more money into the military alliance, President Trump may inadvertently cause some Europeans to rethink the over-the-top anti-Russian propaganda, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
By Ray McGovern
President Donald Trump’s politically incorrect behavior at the gathering of NATO leaders in Brussels on Thursday could, in its own circuitous way, spotlight an existential threat to the alliance. Yes, that threat is Russia, but not in the customary sense in which Westerners have been taught to fear the Russian bear. It is a Russia too clever to rise to the bait – a Russia patient enough to wait for the Brussels bureaucrats and generals to fall of their own weight, pushed by financial exigencies in many NATO countries.
At that point it will become possible to see through the West’s alarmist propaganda. It will also become more difficult to stoke artificial fears that Russia, for reasons known only to NATO war planners and neoconservative pundits, will attack NATO. As long as Russian hardliners do not push President Vladimir Putin aside, Moscow will continue to reject its assigned role as bête noire.
First a request: Let me ask those of you who believe Russia is planning to invade Europe to put down the New York Times for a minute or two. Take a deep cleansing breath, and try to be open to the possibility that heightened tensions in Europe are, rather, largely a result of the ineluctable expansion of NATO eastward over the quarter-century since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Actually, NATO has doubled in size, despite a U.S. quid-pro-quo promise in early 1990 to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in early 1990 not to expand NATO “one inch” to the east of Germany. The quid required of Russia was acquiescence to a reunited Germany within NATO and withdrawal of the 300,000-plus Russian troops stationed in East Germany.
The U.S. reneged on its quo side of the bargain as the NATO alliance added country after country east of Germany with eyes on even more – while Russia was not strong enough to stop NATO expansion until February 2014 when, as it turned out, NATO’s eyes finally proved too big for its stomach. A U.S.-led coup d’etat overthrew elected President Viktor Yanukovych and installed new, handpicked leaders in Kiev who favored NATO membership. That crossed Russia’s red line; it was determined – and at that point able – to react strongly, and it did.
These are the flat-facts, contrasting with the mainstream U.S. media’s propaganda about “Russian aggression.” Sadly, readers of the New York Times know little to nothing of this recent history.
Today’s Russian Challenge
The existential threat to NATO comprises a different kind of Russian “threat,” which owes much to the adroitness and sang froid of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who flat-out refuses to play his assigned role of a proper enemy – despite the Western media campaign to paint him the devil incarnate.
Over time, even the most sophisticated propaganda wears thin, and more and more Europeans will realize that NATO, in its present form, is an unnecessary, vestigial organ already a quarter-century beyond its expiration date – and that it can flare up painfully, like a diseased appendix. At a time when citizens of many NATO countries are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet, they will be reluctant to sink still more money into rehab for a vestigial organ.
That there are better uses for the money is already clear, and President Trump’s badgering of NATO countries to contribute ever more for defense may well backfire. Some are already asking, “Defense against what?” Under the painful austerity that has been squeezing the Continent since the Wall Street crash nearly a decade ago, a critical mass of European citizens is likely to be able to distinguish reality from propaganda – and perhaps much sooner than anyone anticipates. This might eventually empower the 99 percent, who don’t stand to benefit from increased military spending to fight a phantom threat, to insist that NATO leaders stop funding a Cold War bureaucracy that has long since outlived its usefulness.
A military alliance normally dissolves when its raison d’etre – the military threat it was created to confront – dissolves. The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 – more than a quarter century ago – and with it the Warsaw Pact that was established as the military counter to NATO.
NATO’s first Secretary General, Lord Ismay, who had been Winston Churchill’s chief military assistant during World War II, stated that NATO’s purpose was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” But a lot can change over the course of almost seven decades.
The Russians relinquished their East European empire after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and withdrew their armed forces. There no longer needed to be a concerted priority effort to “keep the Russians out,” preoccupied as they were with fixing the economic and social mess they inherited when the USSR fell.
As for “keeping the Germans down,” it is not difficult to understand why the Russians, having lost 25 to 27 million in WWII, were a bit chary at the prospect of a reunited Germany. Moscow’s concern was allayed somewhat by putting this new Germany under NATO command, since this sharply lessened the chance the Germans would try to acquire nuclear weapons of their own.
But NATO became the “defensive” blob that kept growing and growing, partly because that is what bureaucracies do (unless prevented) and partly because it became a way for U.S. presidents to show their “toughness.” By early 2008, NATO had already added ten new members – all of them many “inches” to the east of Germany: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
There were rumors that Ukraine and Georgia were in queue for NATO membership, and Russian complaints were becoming louder and louder. NATO relations with Russia were going to hell in a hand basket and there was no sign the Washington policymakers gave a hoot.
A leading advocate from the Russo-phobic crowd was the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, who had been President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and remained in the forefront of those pressing for NATO expansion – to include Ukraine. In 1998, he wrote, “Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”
The relentless expansion of NATO greatly bothered former Sen. Bill Bradley, a longtime expert on Russia and a sober-minded policy analyst. On Jan. 23, 2008, in a talk before the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, he sounded an almost disconsolate note, describing NATO expansion a “terribly sad thing” … a “blunder of monumental proportions. …
“We had won the Cold War … and we kicked them [the Russians] when they were down; we expanded NATO. In the best of circumstances it was bureaucratic inertia in NATO – people had to have a job. In the worst of circumstances it was certain … irredentist East European types, who believe Russia will forever be the enemy and therefore we have to protect against the time when they might once again be aggressive, thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophesy.”
As tensions with Russia heightened late last decade, Sen. Bradley added, “Right now we are confronted with something that could have easily been avoided.”
Finally Saying Nyet
A week after Bradley’s lament, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called in U.S. Ambassador William Burns to read him the riot act. The subject line of Burns’s CONFIDENTIAL cable #182 of Feb. 1, 2008, in which he reported Lavrov’s remarks to Washington shows that Burns played it straight, choosing not to mince his own or Lavrov’s words: “Nyet means nyet: Russia’s NATO enlargement redlines.”
Here what Ambassador Burns wrote in his summary, which the public knows because the cable was among the thousands leaked to WikiLeaks by Pvt. Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, for which she was imprisoned for seven years and only recently released (yet the cable has been essentially ignored by the corporate U.S. news media):
“Following a muted first reaction to Ukraine’s intent to seek a NATO Membership Action Plan at the Bucharest summit, Foreign Minister Lavrov and other senior officials have reiterated strong opposition, stressing that Russia would view further eastward expansion as a potential military threat. NATO enlargement, particularly to Ukraine, remains an emotional and neuralgic issue for Russia, but strategic policy considerations also underlie strong opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia.
“In Ukraine, these include fears that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene. Additionally, the government of Russia and experts continue to claim that Ukrainian NATO membership would have a major impact on Russia’s defense industry, Russian-Ukrainian family connections, and bilateral relations generally.”
So, it is not as though then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. policymakers were not warned, in very specific terms, of Russia’s redline on Ukrainian membership in NATO. Nevertheless, on April 3, 2008, the final declaration from at a NATO summit in Bucharest asserted: “NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.”
The Ukraine Coup
Six years later, on Feb. 22, 2014, the U.S.-pushed putsch in Ukraine, which George Friedman, then President of the think-tank STRATFOR, labeled “the most blatant coup in history,” put in power a fiercely anti-Russian regime eager to join the Western alliance.
Russia’s reaction was predictable – actually, pretty much predicted by the Russians themselves. But for Western media and “statesmen,” the Ukrainian story begins on Feb. 23, 2014, when Putin and his advisers decided to move quickly to thwart NATO’s designs on Ukraine and take back Crimea where Russia’s only warm-water naval base has been located since the days of Catherine the Great.
U.S. officials (and The New York Times) have made it a practice to white-out the coup d’etat in Kiev and to begin recent European history with Russia’s immediate reaction, thus the relentless presentation of these events as simply “Russian aggression,” as if Russia instigated the crisis, not the U.S.
A particularly blatant example of this came on June 30, 2016, when then U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute spoke at a press briefing before the NATO summit in Warsaw:
“Beginning in 2014 … we’re moving into a new period in NATO’s long history. … So the first thing that happened in 2014 that marks this change is a newly aggressive, newly assertive Russia under Vladimir Putin. So in late February, early March of 2014, the seizing, the occupying of Crimea followed quickly by the illegal political annexation of Crimea. … Well, any notion of strategic partnership came to an abrupt halt in the first months of 2014.”
And so, for the nonce, Western propaganda captured the narrative. How long this distortion of history will continue is the question. The evolution of Europe as a whole (including Russia) over the past half-century, together with the profound changes that this evolution has brought, suggest that those of the European Establishment eager to inject life into the vestigial organ called NATO – whether for lucrative profits from arms sales or cushy spots in NATO’s far-flung bureaucracy – are living on borrowed time.
President Trump can keep them off balance by creating uncertainty with respect to how Washington regards its nominal NATO obligation to risk war with Russia should some loose cannon in, say, Estonia, start a shooting match with the Russians. On balance, the uncertainty that Trump has injected may be a good thing. Similarly, to the degree that his pressure for increased defense spending belatedly leads to an objective estimate of the “threat” from Russia, that may be a good thing too.
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The Fitzgibbons - especially the women - have long been the backbone of Oliver's Well, Virginia. Matriarch Mary Bernadette is still striking and tireless at 75, with a generous heart that belies her sometimes sharp tongue. Her husband, Paddy, owns the local landscaping business, daughter Grace is a nun, and son Pat and his wife Megan are successful lawyers. Her grandson, PJ, and his new wife, Alexis, live in a charming cottage behind the main house. Church, family, tradition, and the local historical society - everything Mary Bernadette cherishes is here. Yet below the surface, there are fractures.
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Soviet Steam trawler
|Completed||1932 - Zavod No 190 (A. Zhdanov), Leningrad|
|Date of attack||17 Jan 1942||Nationality: Soviet|
|Fate||Sunk by U-454 (Burckhard Hackländer)|
|Position||68° 41'N, 38° 58'E - Grid AW 2244|
|Complement||34 (2 dead and 32 survivors).|
|Route||Murmansk - fishing grounds|
|Notes on event|
At 06.32 hours on 17 Jan 1942, U-454 fired one torpedo at the RT-68 Enisej 78 miles north of Kanin Nos and observed one hit amidships. The trawler had been missed by a spread of two torpedoes at 06.03 hours. The forepart broke off and sank while the stern remained afloat and was sunk by a coup de grâce at 06.43 hours. The survivors, four of them wounded, reached Vargina Guba in their lifeboats.
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It’s the most unlikely debate since G. Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary: Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” vs. the Creation Museum’s Ken Ham, at the Petersburg, Kentucky, museum February 4. The question: “Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?”
Another question: Should scientists even engage with creationists over something that is not actually debatable? Chicago blogger James Kirk Wall notes, “If one third of the adults in this country believed that babies came from storks, as insane as it sounds, yes, we need to have the debate.” Really, for both sides, it’s not debatable. As one commenter on Ham’s Facebook page wrote, “While so many are saying, ‘I hope Ken wins the debate’ I am praying, ‘I hope God wins Bill.’ “
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Ending Deaths from Despair, new task force discusses crises in Dane County
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Ending premature and preventable deaths in the Dane County community is the mission of a new coalition.
Wednesday morning, officials gathered for the first meeting of the Ending Deaths From Despair Coalition. The group is focusing on ways to prevent death by suicide, alcoholism, and drug overdoses.
Leaders said the pandemic has only emphasized the need to provide better support to those struggling with mental health or addiction issues.
The task force is made up of 26 people, including mental health providers, first responders and court and community advocates. They aim to take a hard look at the current resources available in the county and fill in the gaps.
“Are we coordinating, are we communicating as well as we can to provide services that may already be available, but people aren’t aware of?,” said Dane County Executive, Joe Parisi.
Executive Director of Safe Communities, Cheryl Wittke, said certain populations within the county appear to be at a greater risk now than they were in decades past.
“The opioid overdose epidemic is increasingly effecting African Americans in Dane County. We’re seeing higher rates there than we had seen earlier in the pandemic. The same with suicides, we’re seeing an increase in suicide rates among African Americans and Latinos,” told Wittke.
Another task force member, Charles Tubbs, is the Dane County Emergency Management Director. Tubbs lost his son following a battle with mental health issues and addiction.
Tubbs said he knows that countless others are struggling to get the help they need. “You wouldn’t believe the amount of suicides or attempted overdoses that are going on just in the Madison community. That does not include the entire Dane County. It is mind boggling. People are hurting, people need our help,” told Tubbs.
This initial meeting was primarily centered around introducing all the task force members to one another and establishing which areas of expertise each has in either suicide prevention or substance abuse.
TASK FORCE MEMBERS:
- Emily S. Anderson: RN-BC BSN William S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital Pain Care Resource Nurse
- Chief Liza Tatar: Madison Fire Department and Chair, Stop the Overdose Epidemic Steering Committee of Safe Communities
- Chief Aaron Chapin: McFarland Police Department, Dane County Police Chief’s Association and Member, Dane County Criminal Justice Council
- Judge Susan Crawford: Dane County Circuit Court District 1, OWI Court
- Charlestine Daniel: Founder, African American Opioid Coalition of Safe Communities
- Sarah Dunn: Vice President CG Schmidt
- Veronica Figueroa: Executive Director, UNIDOS
- Hannah Flanagan: Director, Crisis Services, Journey Mental Health
- Katrina Hickle-Koclanes, MD: Member & Executive Council, Wisconsin Psychiatric Association
- Nyra Jordan: Social Impact Investment Director, American Family Insurance
- Keith Gennuso, PhD: Lead Scientist, County Health Rankings, UW Population Health Institute
- Beth Lonergan, PhD: Director of Behavioral Health, UW Health Health Care
- Kyle Martin, MD: St. Mary’s Emergency Department, Madison Emergency Physicians
- Kara McCaffrey: Epic Systems
- Jill McHone: Executive Director, Fitchburg Senior Center Nonprofit
- Anna Moffit: Executive Director, NAMI of Dane County
- Lupita Montoto: La Movida Radio
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The Greeks and the Romans both enjoyed dishes of green leaf vegetables dressed with salted olive oil.
The English word “salad” is derived from the Latin word meaning salted.
To-day there is a large variety of dishes called salads but they are based on three basic styles of salads:
The garden or green salad which are based on the use fresh green leafy vegetables such as Lettuce, Rocket, young Cabbage etc and are normally dressed with an oil based dressing.
Vegetable salad which is based on a variety of fresh and cooked vegetables and are normally dressed with a vinaigrette or mayonnaise based dressing.
Bound salad, which is a salad that that holds it shape when placed on the plate with an ice-cream scoop. These are made from a variety of fresh, preserved and cooked vegetables, heavily dressed with a mayonnaise or sour cream based dressings.
During hot weather, salads are invaluable as they are cool and refreshing either as a side dish or as the main dish of the meal.
A perfect salad looks cool and inviting and the skill applied in blending the the ingredients makes for a pleasurable eating experience.
To make the perfect salad requires the the fruit, vegetables and herbs used must be of the best quality and as fresh as possible.
Never use salt in the water to wash or freshen the lettuce in.
Never sprinkle the lettuce once it is cut up with salt as the lettuce will lose its crispness.
Dry the lettuce by shaking it in a cloth before cutting up.
Lettuce and greens are better shredded than cut up.
Cucumbers can be made crisper by sprinkling with salt after being cut up about 15 minutes before being required. Any liquid that forms can be poured off before using.
To prevent eggs discolouring, place the eggs in to boiling water and boil for 12 minutes then plunge the eggs into icy cold water to cool them quickly.
All vegetables and fruit that are used to make the salad must be cold and clean.
I also like mixed beans with or without cold rice, and one can add cold cooked vegetables too or tomatoes or... anything (but probably not salad or lettuce which makes it a strange type of salad); is there any other names for this kind of cold dish ? I call it a mixed bean salad and only mix it with olive oil and some kind of condiments (red pepper ?) ...
Yes. It is a type of vegetable salad. My wife makes a salad that consists of tomatoes and young fresh cucumbers dressed with undeodorised sunflower oil. But sometimes she will add spring onions or fresh dill.
Dill goes great with cucumbers and tomatoes!
There is many variety on that type of salad but one that my friend uses is replacing the olive oil dressing by yoghurt.
Yes, yoghurt as salad dressing works great!
I'm perhaps the only person I know who likes Iceberg lettuce =)
With cucumbers, red onions and cheddar cheese.
Tossed with olive oil, sugar, hot mustard, herbs and lemon juice (sometimes with balsamic vinegar and I vary the herbs mixture.)
I rarely eat pastas without this side dish.
But I live alone and have lost countless heads of lettuce and cucumbers: I can't eat it all before it goes bad on me.
I love them myself. Also like Cos lettuce, but like everything else the use of them depends on what I desire in the finished dish.
I know what you mean about the lettuce going off.
Ever had an egg and lettuce sanga, sandwich to you, Iceberg beats all the types especially the whiter inner leaves, Yummeee.
I do not like iceberg lettuce. I never eat it, actually. I love butter lettuce, Boston lettuce, romaine, or red leaf lettuce. I adore arugula. One of my favorite salads is arugula and tomatoes.
Let's start a group: The Icebergers.
I hate swimming in ice cold water. Hee Heee
Salads are one of my preferred foods, they have always been.
Hey, neat trick with the cucumbers, Davy! I did not know it!
Here's one of my favorite summer salads: Israeli chopped salad.
It's a bit of a pain because you need to chop the veggies in small cubes, like 1 cm X 1cm (0.5 in X 0.5 in or a bit smaller.
Chop in equal proportions: tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers. In about 1/2 proportion, chop red onions. Mix together, toss with a bit of salt, olive oil, tons of lemon juice, and tons of finely chopped cilantro. Let it sit for a bit before eating. Yum.
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Perfectionism might be a useful thing when it comes to doing something as good as you can and putting effort into academic assignments or your job. However, sometimes perfectionism might cause serious issues, even mental health problems, stress, and self-blaming. In order to live a happy and full life, a person should understand how to regulate their perfectionism and avoid being too hard on themselves. Keep reading to learn how to cope with excessive perfectionism.
A Need to Be Perfect
A perfect life, perfect results – these are the things that many people are trying to achieve. A belief that everything can be perfect is somewhat delusional, though, as it’s nearly impossible to achieve ideal results all the time without failing even once. And while the majority of people learn from their mistakes and are able to move forward from a negative experience, perfectionists are very focused on each of their imperfections, making it into a life-long battle with themselves and the whole world around them.
It’s no surprise that the inability to avoid focusing on mistakes or not being the best in some spheres causes serious mental health issues and high levels of stress. Being so judgmental about yourself can do no good in the long-time run. Perfectionists are the ones who more than others suffer from OCDs and also might be less emotionally stable.
And while the best option is to turn to a specialist for professional help, there are some small things that might help you cope with your excessive perfectionism and be less stressed about your studies, job, and life in general. Here are a few tips from us.
Set Goals that Are Reasonable
Not everyone is born to become a Nobile prize winner, right? Being hard on yourself for not winning one is that kind of tendency that you should cope with. There is nothing more destructive than setting unreasonable, unachievable short-time goals and later being sad and even punishing yourself for not hitting that goal.
What you need to do is to make sure the goals you set are understandable and achievable. Low your standards when it comes to your school or job performance to a reasonable level. For example, finishing a dissertation in two months is cool, of course, but unrealistic. Being the best in every class is unrealistic. Getting the best job from the very beginning of your career is realistic but can depend on luck.
Also. Try to avoid being that competitive when it comes to things that don’t really matter. For example, there is no need to get the best grades all the time – studying is no competition.
Celebrate Small Victories
When you are a perfectionist, it’s hard to notice small victories because you are always in a rush to do even better. Once you start this game of outrunning others and your own previous results, it’s never going to stop. Make sure you appreciate and understand your effort. You can even treat yourself with something that you like whenever you finish a task or get control of your perfectionist tendencies.
Optimism is always a good cure for things like perfectionism as they allow you to stop for a moment and appreciate the world around you instead of being focused on another thing that you should do right now. Whenever you feel down, make sure to remind yourself that you are worth living and being happy. That you don’t depend on your wins or fails. That you are more than grades or job salary. You are not perfect because no one is and no one should be.
Don’t Treat Mistakes Like the End of the World
We all make mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes are small, sometimes big, sometimes they can stay unnoticed and live only in your memory, sometimes we get punished for them, and sometimes we just need to learn our lesson.
This is what makes a perfectionist addicted to success – they are afraid of making mistakes and afraid of being responsible. But the truth is – mistakes are inevitable. Moreover, we learn from mistakes and they make us better.
Don’t be afraid of mistakes. Allow yourself to make them and you’ll see that your life becomes much easier and less stressed.
These are all of the tips that we have for you. Treat yourself as a person who is not afraid of being not the best in everything, be aware of tendencies, like self-blaming or even self-punishment, anxiety, nervousness, etc. And make sure you get therapy in case you want to get rid of perfectionism with help of a professional. We wish you a happy life and the best of luck! | <urn:uuid:69ef332c-b400-45f7-beb8-74846dd2bad6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.freshessays.com/tag/perfectionism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964643 | 941 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Porirua City is at the orange setting of the traffic lights protection framework. This means some changes to the way we work and live, as protections are in place to help minimise the spread of Covid-19 in the community. Find out more
Work to fill in the duck pond at Aotea Lagoon in Porirua will begin in late January.
The project is expected to take up to six months and will involve the pathways around the duck pond and the miniature railway being closed off, as trucks and heavy machinery are required to carry out the work.
Access to the playground and splash pad will remain open during this time, but there will be a safety fence around the duck pond.
The pond has been an ongoing concern for Porirua City Council for some years, as it has filled with sludge and gets very smelly, especially on warm days. The Council sought, and received, consent from Greater Wellington Regional Council in 2020 to fill it in, but extra time was needed for procurement of the work and getting fine weather.
Funding was granted in PCC’s recent Long-term Plan for the project, and it is a relief that it would be under way soon, says Porirua Mayor Anita Baker.
"This is a very public part of Aotea Lagoon, between the playground and the splash pad, and the situation needs to be rectified," she says.
"It’s something we hear about a lot from residents and visitors, so a solution will be welcomed."
As part of the project to fill it in, 1200 cubic metres of fill will be taken from the back of Porirua Park, off Gear Tce.
The duck pond will be de-watered initially, and eels and other fishlife found in the pond will be relocated safely to nearby streams.
The exposed sludge will be dredged into geo-bags, which are then left to dry before fill is imported from Porirua Park. Finally a naturalised stream will be built, through the new lawn area.
The public toilets beside the duck pond will be unavailable for the duration of the works so portaloos will be provided next to the playground and splash pad.
Parks and City Services Manager Julian Emeny says it has taken a while to get to this point, but Council wants to do the right thing for the park, environment and any wildlife that may inhabit the pond.
"November and December can often be quite wet so the decision was taken to start work early in the new year in anticipation of obtaining the best possible drying weather for the project," he says.
"The landscaped stream will become a welcome addition to this already popular Porirua destination. And we expect the local ducks will find an alternative spot nearby."
The project is tentatively to start 24 January, but this is still weather-dependant. The splash pad and playground will be accessible from the middle Papakowhai Rd entrance while work is under way.
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Commercial Vegetable dicing machine is a practical dicer machine that can be widely used for the dicing of all kinds of vegetables and fruits. This fruit dicer machine is especially suitable for being applied in various food processing plants, restaurants, school canteens and so on. All kinds of vegetables and fruits can be cut by this electric dicing machine, such as radishes, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, sweet potatoes, etc. The fruit and vegetable cubes made from this tomato dicer have even size and can be widely used in food processing.
What is the commercial vegetable dicing machine?
This commercial fruit dicing machine is a special cutting machine for making vegetable and fruit cubes. The commercial vegetable dicing machine is suitable for the processing of soft foods and food pickles in dehydrated vegetables, quick-frozen vegetable processing plants, various restaurant foods, etc. It can process various root and stem vegetables and fruits into cubes and cuboid shapes with high efficiency.
Raw materials for dicing with the vegetable dicer
The vegetable dicer machine is a multi-functional cutting machine for making vegetable cubes, so that nearly all the vegetables and fruits can be diced and sliced by this commercial vegetable dicer cuber, such as carrots, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, cabbage, pickles, bitter gourd, ginger, radishes, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, green peppers, pumpkins, melons, apples, pears, mangoes, pineapples, hams, etc.
Vegetable Fruit Dicer Machine main structure
With a compact structure, this automatic vegetable dicing machine can dice raw materials like carrots and tomatoes into cubes quickly. This machine mainly has the base, the shell, the dial, the vertical knife, the silk knife body, the horizontal cutting knife body, the transmission system, and the electrical control system composition. All the constituent parts in this commercial electric food dicer are made of stainless steel which can make sure the food quality.
Commercial Vegetable dicing machine working principle
When we use this best vegetable dicer, we should put it through the power supply first. Then we put the materials into the inlet, we can see that the onions or carrots will be diced just within several seconds. When this machine works, the machine’s internal dial drives the cutting object to rotate at high speed. It uses the object centrifugal force, with the help of a vertical knife will be cut into pieces. Then cut into strips through the disc cutter, and feed the cut material into the cross-cutting knife edge, by the cross-cutting knife cut into the required cube or cuboid.
As for making vegetable and fruit cubes, we always should put a container for collecting the final products, or we can set the conveyor for transporting the cubes and further processing these products. When using this vegetable dicer for large scale production of vegetable and fruit cubes in some food processing plants, we also should set other supporting machines like the washing machine and dryer machine for automatic and mass production.
Commercial vegetable dicing machine use instructions
- First of all, the material to be cut should be washed and removed impurities. If the material to be cut is mixed with sand and mud, the blade edge and the blade are easily damaged and blunt. The maximum cutting diameter of the material should not exceed 80mm. If it is larger than this diameter, it must be cut into small pieces first.
- When the dicer machine is working, the switch should be closed, the housing door should be closed, and the safety switch should be pressed. When the housing door is closed, the switch cannot be pressed, the line is blocked, and the motor cannot be operated.
- The material to be cut is put into the shell from the hopper. Under the action of the dial plate, the material is cut into the required thickness by a vertical knife, then cut into strips by a circular wire cutter, and finally cut into squares by a horizontal cutting knife.
- The adjustment of the vegetable dicing machine specification is changed by adjusting the slice thickness and replacing the disc cutter and the cross cutter.
Main features of the vegetable dicer for sale
- This fruit and commercial vegetable dicing machine adopts a composite cutter, the cutting surface is smooth and the cutting rate is high.
- This fruit dicer machine is of advanced design, easy operation, low energy consumption, high efficiency.
- The aluminum-magnesium alloy and stainless steel materials, beautiful, conform to the hygiene standards.
- The vegetable dicing specification: this dicer machine can cut the 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15 mm cubes or volume, and according to requirements of the size, it can also be customized.
Vegetable dicing machine working video
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Loan workers are defined as people who work by themselves without any contact or constant supervision. It is crucial to ensure the safety of loan work especially for employers. However one way in which they would be monitored is with the help of body worn cameras which comes in the form of a wearable technology that can be advantageous for the one who is a lone worker as well as their employer.
What are personal body cameras?
A personal body camera is also known as a body cam and it is a video recording device which can be worn on the body. It normally comprises of a camera and a microphone along with the rechargeable battery which stores data. It could be either integrated into the camera or a separate unit which might be connected to the camera. The police and the law enforcement Agencies were the first organisations to test the use of body cameras in a large number. However this technology has been in use for several years by different police departments. It is now common for other industries to also adopt these body worn camera especially health care and those who work in retail and security.
How do personal body cameras work?
Body cameras are kept on the user’s chest or the shoulder and can even be worn as a head Device with the required functionality which can be controlled by the user. The camera when switched on would display a light to show that it is recording. There are several types of cameras which work in a number of ways some come with touchscreen control while others are front facing and also work as playback. There have been a number of innovations in the recent years in the manufacturing of body cameras in order to improve its use.
The amount of storage offered by the body cameras depends upon the manufacturer and the business infrastructure for which it is required. The footage is recorded into an internal storage device and at the end of every shift when the camera is no longer needed the footage can be uploaded to a secure digital location. Sometimes a body camera would even encrypt the footage on the device and keep it safe in case the camera gets stolen or hacked.
There are no specific laws or any regulations regarding the use of body cameras still there are certain guidelines which need to be followed. It is legal for the police to wear body cameras all the data is processed and managed according to a code of practice. However the body camera usage should be proportional and legitimate and necessary. In order to manage the law and order situation the body worn camera videos will not replace the conventional forms of evidence and it is important for the forces to consult with the local communities when using body cameras during altercation.
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The Gif is on the rise. The New York Times reported today on the new popularity of gifs, which have seen a notable upswing in use increasing since 2012. Social networks are making it easier than ever to integrate gifs into posts. Facebook announced true gif support on the site this past March, and Twitter did the same last summer.
As the New York Times notes, this increasing propensity toward gif use may signal the rise of a new language made possible by mobile and text-driven communication. Linguists already say that emojis are a new language (and see our rundown, here). Will animated gifs prove the same?
Okay. What is a gif though?
Technically, a gif is a picture that moves. It's different than a video because the movement is caused by many fewer images layered on top of each other -- exactly like a flipbook. Gifs can be made from video, but when that happens, the video clip is broken down into several layered pictures. This compression makes gifs highly shareable. Video files are huge; gifs are not. Of their main qualities, we can say: a gif is a quick, looping video without sound that usually captures a gesture, expression, or moment.
Now, we have better technology, as well as dedicated communities on sites like Tumblr that love to make and share images. Gifs are being served like hotcakes. Now we're seeing high-quality looping images ripped straight from pop culture.
Some celebs are more gif-able than others.
Why We Gif
It seems text-only messages aren't cutting it these days. Human kind is reaching for more visual means of expressing our feelings and reactions. As Lucy Dikeou, a 21-year-old student at Stanford explains in the NY Times piece: "I'm able to express these really complex emotions in the span of two seconds." Others are just text-shy. Jerrod Howly, an employee at Google, speaking to the Times said: "I'm not that great with words. But if I find the perfect GIF, it nails it."
If you were meeting a friend for a movie, and halfway to the theater, you get a text saying they aren't going to make it, raincheck?, you could text "Okay" or you could text:
How to Gif
One thing you can do is search gif archive sites, the most popular being Giphy, Imgur, and PopKey. Riffsy is the most popular Gif keyboard for mobile, making it easy to insert gifs into text messages with a quick tap.
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Westpac AML/CTF failures - What went wrong?
In October 2020, Australia’s second largest bank, Westpac, was ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to pay a fine of A$1.3 billion (roughly £710 million). The bank had been found to have committed over 23 million contraventions of Australia’s AML and CTF Act between 2014 and 2017. How could this happen? What were the failures of people, process and technology that led to this scandal?
Insufficient expertise in the financial crime arena, lack of responsibility at the operational level, too few employees with the requisite skills, experience, and expertise to effectively manage the AML/CTF risk are just some of the many explanations behind what went wrong at Westpac.
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Annual Southern Indiana Human Trafficking Awareness Conference at Indiana University Southeast, the keynote speaker told the audience:
There are a few things that members of the public can look out for to spot a victim of sex trafficking…. Tracking chips are becoming more popular in sex trafficking victims, as well. They’re often found on victims’ hands between the forefinger and the thumb, as well as underneath their arms and on their necks.
This tracking thing was something I hadn’t heard before, though years ago when I interviewed the head of Brickhouse Security, he told me that while parents sometimes call and ask if they can chip their kids, he tells them no: that’s not only creepy, it’s simply not done. (And, for what it’s worth, it doesn’t even tell you where a child is. Animals are chipped for identification, not tracking, purposes.)
So I asked David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, if trafficking victims were actually being chipped. His reply:
And while I had his attention, I also asked: “Have you heard of any children under age 10 kidnapped by strangers for sex trafficking in the U.S.?”
So let’s try to dial back on the latest moral panic sweeping our country. Yes, some young people — mostly teens in terrible situations — do end up in prostitution, sometimes in the thrall of a pimp. Yes, we should do all we can to prevent this…by focusing on the actual problem, not a fantasy version.
But meanwhile, no: young children are not being snatched from the aisles of Target and Ikea, or even from their front lawns, and sold into sex slavery. Nor is anyone being chipped “between the forefinger and the thumb, as well as underneath their arms and on their necks.” – L | <urn:uuid:38c2a61f-c570-43c0-a594-8747f710db3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.freerangekids.com/sex-traffickers-are-chipping-their-victims-except-they-arent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965738 | 429 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Thomas Jefferson was the second Minister Plenipotentiary to France (as far as I can tell, this means that he was the ambassador to France), between 1784 and 1789. He was Benjamin Franklin’s replacement. In fact, when he first arrived in Paris, someone is supposed to have actually asked if he was Franklin’s replacement, to which he is reputed to have responded “No one can replace him. I am only his successor.”
Part of the Place des États-Unis is actually Square Thomas Jefferson.
While Jefferson did like Paris, he was always an American at heart. On June 17, 1785 Jefferson wrote to James Monroe when he was sent here: I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. The pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect but the utility greater. It will make you adore your own country, it’s soil, it’s climate, it’s equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. My God! how little do my country men know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy. I confess I had no idea of it myself. While we shall see multiplied instances of Europeans going to live in America, I will venture to say no man now living will ever see an instance of an American removing to settle in Europe & continuing there. | <urn:uuid:8aa17cbf-f3aa-46f7-b03f-e0cb32053626> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kmganga.com/index.php/sample-page/paramericana/thomas-jefferson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973972 | 289 | 2.25 | 2 |
Pythagoras Academy’s First Lego League (FLL) teams Advance to BC Championship
On January 19th, 2020 two teams representing Pythagoras Academy, Pythagoras Pythons (#45300) and Super Lego Builder Junior (#45301), competed against more than 30 teams in the BC Lower Mainland Qualifier. Their goal was to be selected to participate in the BC FLL Championship in Victoria.
During the first Robo game, the Super LEGO Builder Junior team was leading with 305 points and were ranked in third place. However, Pythagoras Pythons were not too far away as well, ranking 6thth with 230 points. It was a very intense competition in which both teams had to present their projects based on the City Shaper theme, explain their chosen problem and solution, and impress judges with their team work, collaboration and knowledge of the FIRST Core Values.
“Wow! What an impressive presentation!” said one of the FLL judges about Pythagoras Python’s theatrical performance about the imaginary city of Hydrolia that had an issue with its drinking water. Grade 6 students Curtis Liu, Mark Zhang, Winston Lee, Jason Zhou and Simone Lin used their musical theatre skills and created a little skit with Professor Felanius, saving the city with a filter invention called the X-Straw. As a result, this team received “Project Award: 3rdrd Place” in the Lower Mainland Qualifying Tournament and will be going to the BC FLL Championships. Way to go Pythagoras Pythons!
The second Pythagoras Academy team, Super LEGO Builder Junior, worked on the problem of how to recycle styrofoam. The team consisted of Grade 5 students Simba Yang, and Grade 6 students Lucas Liu, Jaycee Wang and Brandon Zhang. This team contacted local recycling businesses and building managers and shared their solution to the problem with the students of Pythagoras Academy. Their presentation was innovative and very thoughtful. It is worth noticing how complex and precise their programming was of the EV3 robot. Their persistence and hard work paid off since this team was also chosen for the BC FLL Championship in Victoria.
It is worth noticing that all the students on both teams started preparing for the FLL Qualifier in October 2019. They had to research, build and program their robots to complete multiple complex missions. On average, they spent approximately 4-5 hours every week learning how to program EV3 robots, researching the problems facing cities, creating their posters, sharing their project to classmates and the general public, filing out class reflection journals and learning and demonstrating FIRST Core Values.
During the competition, students were supported by their parents, Information Technology/ADST Teacher Mrs. Yanina Vihovska, and RoboPlanet Robotics Coaches Tony, John and Xinghao. In addition, our students took the time and nominated Tony for the Coach/Mentor Award that he successfully won. Congratulations from the Pythagoras Academy Family!
In between the presentations, practices and Robo games, students and chaperones spent time watching other teams, took pictures in the photobooth and enjoyed talking to other teams, while sharing our Pythagoras Academy pins and promoting our school.
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– I’d like to explore the centuries of man on the site so that one can read the history on its surface, with language becoming part of the park’s skin.
The American artist Jenny Holzer (born 1950) works with words in public space. She has become renowned for her light installations that project writing onto landscapes and buildings. She has worked with stone benches engraved with text since the 1980's. Her penchant for memorials led her to choose enduring materials, such as marble and granite in addition to light and electronics.
For Cliff Sappho in Ekeberg Park she chose to use the location itself as a medium for the text. By carving quotes by the Greek classic poetess Sappho into rock protrusions in the hill she makes the park's timelessness manifest. “I needed a text that has withstood time and echoes both intelligence and beauty,” she says. Sappho's poetry complements the place, but does not force itself upon it.
The texts for Cliff Sappho have been translated by professor Anne Carson, an acclaimed scholar of Classics. Holzer and Carson collaborated in picking and placing the text fragments that make out this work of art.
Cliff Sappho, 2013.
© Jenny Holzer / BONO
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the history curriculum
I have recently wondered how history leasons differ in other countries, therefore i set up this debate to find out what other people learn in history in there country
for example over here ,where I live, in england,we study this:
primary school: romans,vikings egyptians,greeks and a breif history on stuarts victorians and saxons
secondary school:yr7-saxons and medival britain
yr8-victorians and stuarts
yr9-WWI & WWII(and the holocaust)
yr10(year i am currently in)-america during the wars
it would be intresting to know what other countries want there children to know as I heard that some countries don't teach their children about the holocaust.
Sigh... the classes I took in my nation went along the lines of this...
Primary: Creation of the nation, a brief history of the UK, Canadian studies (year 4), History of the USA up to the Lincoln Assassination, History of the Portuguese empire (WHY? I don't know)...
Secondary: WWI, WWII (but not the Warsaw uprising or invasion of Madagascar, both awesome), French Vietnam, US Korean War... Cold War, History of communism ( 2nd Best class ever in basic schooling), History of Afghanistan and Iraq (Best class in basic schooling).
Classifying history is silly..
Some technology from '43 is now prominent in 2010.
Roman roads somewhat define the world rail grids NOW.
Who Was Tamerlane..And why is he forgotten.
The WEST. And brit history applauds Montgomery.. Yet he was a fool.
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A further terrorist attack in Tunisia is now highly likely: that's the warning being issued this evening by officials in the UK.
In fact, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is telling British nationals to leave the country as soon as they can.
Many tourists are currently making preparations to leave on flights back to the UK tonight or tomorrow.
The Department Of Foreign Affairs in Dublin has yet to officially update its advice for Irish people visiting the North African nation.
It is still telling tourists there to exercise “extreme caution” – without going as far as to recommend that people avoid Tunisia entirely.
However, the Irish Times this evening is reporting that the Department is now "urgently reviewing" this stance.
On June 26 an attack by Islamic extremist group ISIS in the popular costal resort town of Sousse killed 38 people – including three Irish people. Thirty of the dead were from Britain alone.
The BBC says this evening that some UK travel firms have also already begun to repatriate their British staff from Tunisia.
And Thomas Cook said in a statement to Reuters that it was working to bring home 2,000 British and Irish guests currently at its resorts in Tunisia on ten flights scheduled for the next few days.
Reports on social media said that tourists were being escorted to the airport by Tunisian military.
British authorities explained that they simply do not believe that necessary security measures are in place to keep holiday-makers safe.
— FCO travel advice (@FCOtravel) July 9, 2015
A Foreign Affairs statement this evening read: "Since the attack in Sousse the intelligence and threat picture has developed considerably, leading us to the view that a further terrorist attack is highly likely."
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I’m not entirely sure why, but a Texas supermarket chain decided to jalapeñosplain what a chile jalapeño is by calling it “Fresh Mexican Squash.”
Really? After all these years in the USA I can safely say that both, Mexicans and non-Mexicans have a pretty clear idea of what a jalapeño is: a medium-sized chili pepper pod, which is widely used in Mexican and TexMex dishes (and even drinks!). If anything, a “Mexican squash” –at least for this blogger– would be nothing but delicious calabacitas my grandma used to prepare with ham, corn and sour cream when I was growing up in Mexico.
So, don’t try so hard, Sellers Bros: A jalapeño is a jalapeño is a jalapeño.
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The Scorpion’s Venomous Weapon
The scorpion is an invertebrate (it has no backbone), but it has a segmented tail-like appendage that packs a powerful punch to its enemies. Look closely, and notice that the scorpion’s tail is tipped with a venomous stinger. Scorpions use their stingers to capture prey, defend themselves, and possibly to subdue mates. These little animals can control the venom flow, so some stings do not have any venom or are only mildly poisonous.
I remember seeing a scorpion at summer camp when I was about 10 years old, but I didn’t know if it was dangerous. All scorpions have venom, though they generally are harmless and timid, running from danger. Watch out, though, because if they feel threatened they might use their stingers. Although you should try to avoid scorpion stings, most of them won’t cause serious damage. In humans, stings typically produce effects such as pain, numbness, or swelling only in the area where the sting occurs. A few scorpion species pose a serious threat to humans. But God also gave humans the ability to learn about the venomous tail so that we can avoid its harmful sting.
God gave scorpions an incredibly well-designed tail to help them survive. We may not think of small creatures like scorpions as possessing weapons to defend themselves against threatening creatures, but they do. They also fit perfectly into the marvelous design of God’s creation.
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Cedar shake roofs have been used for centuries because cedar is highly resistant to decay. However, there are several things that can make cedar shakes biodegrade prematurely. If these wood roofs in Ridgewood are neglected, they can become the perfect places for mold, moss, algae, and fungi to grow. With proper cleaning and maintenance, your cedar shake roof can have a lifespan from anywhere between 40 to 60 years. Be sure to have a maintenance routine set up for your roof, which should include weekly and monthly checks during the stormy season, as well as annual cleaning tasks. Better yet, hire a contractor who offers a professional roof maintenance program. That way, you can have the peace of mind knowing that your roof is being properly cared for.
Inspect Your Cedar Shake Periodically
Be sure to inspect your roof often. Check to see if there are any missing or damaged roof shingles. Also, check for cracks or gaps in your overall roof that can allow moisture to penetrate or stagnate in areas it shouldn’t. Excess moisture in your cedar shake can make them susceptible to mold, algae, and fungi infestations. If moisture issues are left unaddressed, you can experience leaks in your roof and a whole host of problems such as interior water damage and mold growth inside your home.
Clean Your Cedar Shake Roof
The best way to maintain your cedar shake roof is to clean it. There are specialty products on the market today that can help you get rid of biological nuisances such as mold, moss, algae and fungi. Remember to choose cleaning products that are not overly abrasive or caustic, which can damage the wood and reduce its structural integrity. Don’t allow leaf debris to settle and sit on your roof. And be sure to remove pooling or excessive moisture from cedar shakes.
Hire a Professional
Even with your best efforts, you can’t possibly clean your roof the way a professional can. Roofing contractors have the proper tools and training to perform a thorough cleaning and to provide effective repairs. So, leave the maintenance work to the experts. Most professional maintenance programs tend to be affordable, considering the alternative of having to pay for extensive roof repairs or for an entirely new roof. | <urn:uuid:70e574e5-0d1e-4846-8afe-4b752ff8fe4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.homesteadroofing.com/blog/2015/12/tips-for-maintaining-your-cedar-shake-roof/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951516 | 463 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Although modern engineering is an intrinsic part of the development enterprise, Nepali engineers as a collective have been surprisingly absent in the country's development discourse in recent years. One cannot imagine good development happening without good engineering – covering the entire sub-disciplinary spectrum from nanomaterials and heavier civil construction to agriculture and chemical engineering. However, it should be noted that bad engineering has contributed significantly to mal-development that ranges from poor planning to shoddy construction and shady dealings with corrupt politicians, civil servants and contractors.
The reputation of engineers in Nepal, if one went by the FM news this morning as this article was being written of CIAA focusing on corruption by engineers, is tainted. At one end, they are seen as the vanguards of corruption and at the other end of societal envy for that very reason! One just has to be present as a senior citizen at any match-making deal within the larger family circle and one can hear fulsome praise of the prospective bridegroom as an engineer with a good financial future ahead of him. My own experience with this misplaced value distortion within Nepali society goes back over three decades ago when I was a government engineer within the Ministry of Water Resources. Having put in my few years of fieldwork building electricity distribution lines within Kathmandu Valley and in Dandeldhura, I had opted to shift to more academic pursuits working with Canadian experts who were supporting the newly formed Water and Energy Commission. My father was then running a law firm from our Patan Dhoka premises and I used to come back from work and sit among the younger lawyers and waiting for clients to exchange news and view of the day.
One day there was this venerable-looking old gentleman client who was waiting for his appointment. When others introduced me to him as the big lawyer's son, he asked me if I was a lawyer too. I said, no, I am a water resources engineer; and he lighted up beaming and said that was very good, that I had a great future as a rich man. He then asked me which big hydro project I was with. I told him I was not with any project but was working in planning and studies. Slightly disappointed, he said, "Oh, so they have not given you any work yet, hunh?"
Changing societal misperceptions about engineering in society, upholding values of high engineering standards and being the watch-dogs checking impropriety within the profession both in the private and government sectors is the job of professional engineering societies. During the Panchayat period, there was only one Nepal Engineers' Association (NEA) and at the very start of my career, just before the National Referendum had been announced by King Birendra, I had the good fortune to be elected its executive member. Our Chair was the veteran engineer Indra Ratna Sthapit and he encouraged me to take up the editorship of its bulletin NEA News. Besides reporting on issues of engineering concern, we took up a task then new to Nepal – interviewing oldies in the field still alive to glean from them not just past history of our profession but also to learn of their struggles and successes. The idea was that it was up to the profession to not only to respect and keep alive the memory of the pioneers in our field but also to pass on their ideals and values to the younger members of the profession. Among those whose profiles and interviews we published were Surya Jung Thapa who built New Road after the 1934 earthquake, Pushpa Bhakta Malla Nepal's first mining engineer, and Kul Ratna Tuladhar who was Nepal's first chief engineer of its Public Works Department. The period around the National Referendum was indeed, to my mind, the golden period of social engagement by Nepali engineers.
Sadly, that exuberance in upholding professional dignity is absent today, not only in NEA but several other more specialized engineering associations that subsequently sprang up as NEA's social relevance and its standing as a strong ethical voice declined. The rot started shortly after the restoration of multiparty democracy in 1990 when even professional societies such as those of doctors and lawyers together with engineers, fractured along partisan lines. Elections for officeholders became rather bitter events that saw national-level party leaders shamelessly campaigning for their panels. And once elected, the office bearers did little to further medical, legal or engineering concerns but merely functioned as loyal party cadres hoping for plum rewards from their political masters. Indeed, the only activism one sees coming out of them is following political party instructions to release statements or to hold placards in party street rallies as members of PAPAD, a political alliance of professional bodies allegedly furthering peace and democracy (but not more specific professional concerns).
One would be hard-pressed to find NEA, the country's premier engineering association with thousands of members, discussing controversies surrounding Nepal's large engineering projects. One heard nothing from it about Arun-3; nor has it spoken about the fast-track road connection to the Tarai. (One would have expected a society of professional engineers to ask and explain to the public at large what is "fast" about a fast-track project: which engineering aspect actually works faster than normal and whether it is merely a gimmick to award contracts bypassing normal checks and balances and thus fostering corruption?) It was silent when the Tanakpur hydro project agreement with India raged, nor did it speak up during the subsequent Mahakali treaty that even saw the breakup of the UML party. Neither has one heard anything from it on the questionable Nijgadh airport project (especially now that tourism, as practiced over the last decades, will not see any upturn for years, leaving even our Tribhuban airport under capacity), or the US MCC 400kV transmission line and road expansion project, or the massive environmental destruction brought about by badly gouged out hillsides by haphazard "bulldozer terrorism" road building. In short, it has stayed party loyal and social consciousness dead; and this makes this life member of NEA very sad. Democracy is not about partisan loyalty: it is about constantly questioning those in power.
It is not that engineers as individuals or small collectives have not raised their voices; and it does not mean that everyone should agree on everything. When the fast-track road controversy was going on, the late Birendra Keshari Pokhrel (former roads department chief engineer and member of Panchayat parliament) and his colleagues did raise their voice and argued that it makes much more sense to go for a railway track instead. The Arun-3 campaign was a milestone in professional activism because it was engineers themselves who went public with what was wrong with the project. In India's Ganga plains, it is engineers like DK Mishra who chose activism against bad flood control projects which have exposed the true cost of bad engineering that has mired Bihar in rural poverty. In the medical sector in Nepal, one individual Dr. Govinda KC has succeeded in arousing the conscience of the nation where the Nepal Medical Association has failed.
All engineers will not easily come to a single consensus because complex, intertwined economic, social and environmental issues rarely see unanimous agreement anywhere in the world. But an open public debate would help layout the hidden disbenefits, clarify the costs of decisions, and allow those holding public office to figure out what appropriate amelioration packages can be cobbled up to address mainly issues of equity and justice.
It was therefore a pleasant surprise when I got a call from the new Chair of the Society of Electrical Engineers (SEEN) that it was holding a zoom debate on how to promote hydroelectricity consumption in Nepal on 18th July. As a life member of SEEN, I had been as upset with SEEN as with NEA for its silence on matters of professional and public interests. Whether Nepal should develop its hydropower for export or for giving Nepali commerce and industry a strategic edge has become a matter of public policy debate; and it was good of SEEN to come out of its comatose vegetative state and engage publicly. One just hopes NEA as well as other engineering associations such as that of mechanical engineers (SOMEN), of public health engineers (SOPHEN), of architects (SONA) and others will follow suit and emerge into active public life. That burden is now on the shoulders of the younger generation of Nepali engineers, much as it was on that of this writer's generation four decades ago. | <urn:uuid:4d6551dc-5ee8-4b1e-8c73-0ebf648469ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spotlightnepal.com/2020/08/04/re-engineering-nepali-engineers-civil-society/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980973 | 1,731 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Most people have heard of, if not played, the telephone game. In this party pastime a leader whispers a tricky word or phrase to the next person in line. This message is then passed along until the last individual in line reveals what he believes he has heard. Hilarity may ensue as the garbled phrases are compared to the original. Whether the mix-ups were from poor diction, inadequate listening skills, or intentional misdirection doesn’t really matter. The goal of the game has been reached—message mangled.
Isn’t our world much like the telephone game? Oral histories passed down through the ages often bear little resemblance to the events that inspired them. Some important bits of history are forgotten, overlooked, or intentionally left out of textbooks because they may not fit with the agenda of the publisher. And, let’s face it, we often aren’t totally honest when we review our own pasts either.
The Lord God had a very important message for mankind. Mankind could not afford to have this life-giving message garbled or misunderstood. The Law and the Gospel are both needed in their unvarnished and unadulterated forms—just as God intended.
What a blessing that our God didn’t leave this important matter of our salvation to such chancy methods as oral history or human memory! “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write this for a memorial in the book.’” (Exodus 17:14) For about 1600 years God the Holy Spirit breathed His thoughts and words into various chosen individuals, causing them to put down in writing that blessed message of salvation. “No prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:20-21) We aren’t told of the actual method employed by the Holy Spirit, but in the last passage cited, the word used in Greek for “moved” suggests the movement of a boat on the water by the wind. As the wind carries and directs a vessel, so also the Holy Spirit carried and directed the writers of Scripture to set down in writing His holy Word.
Imagine! The very eternal thoughts, words, mysteries, blessings, and promises of our loving Father in heaven, written down and placed in our care! Isn’t it shameful how casually and callously we often treat this wondrous blessing of God? Since the Bible is God’s Word, inspired and inerrant, it is also the highest authority in all matters. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16) We hear many today disparaging established churches with the mantra of “Deeds, not creeds!” Yet, unless one has a universal standard that applies to all people of all time, how can one determine which deeds are appropriate to pursue? The Bible gives us just such a standard.
When we are assailed by others as being too narrow-minded about the way of salvation, we can reference Jesus’ declaration, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) If we are accused of clinging to old-fashioned ideas from an ancient text, we should be quick to point out, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” (Matthew 24:35)
In this sinful world of misinformation and misdirection, it is important to set the record straight, especially when it comes to matters that really count. Since our Savior Jesus has called us to be witnesses to the world of His plan of salvation, we should be diligent in studying the Word of God. May the Holy Spirit bless our hearing and learning of His Word so we may speak it faithfully to God’s glory.
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Incentives and rewards are paramount to the success of an open innovation or crowdsourcing campaign. The crowd, judges, evaluators, managers need a reason to invest their time, energy, and creativity into submitting and evaluating ideas, and voting and commenting on ideas. And the reason to participate need not be the promise of winning a monetary and material prize. The opportunity to be more effective in your job is a non-monetary incentive that should not be underestimated.
How a non-monetary incentive enriched a professional life
This year, I volunteered in a personal capacity with the MIT Climate CoLab to organize and orchestrate an ideation contest on the Climate CoLab open innovation platform. The contest centered on sourcing ideas for how to get people to change their behavior to combat climate change. Part of my responsibility was to enlist prominent experts (academic leaders and CEOs of relevant organizations) as judges for the contest. In light of their many priorities, the significance of their commitment to serve as a judge was monumental.
The week before the judging period opened, a colleague told me about Root Solutions, a non-profit organization that centers on behavior change for improving the environment. It was immediately apparent that I needed to enlist their CEO, Nya Van Leuvan, as a judge for the Shifting Behavior contest. I emailed her that week and she was on board the day before the intensive judging period began. Just in time!
I recognized the significant lift this was for Nya to fit this into her busy schedule on such short notice, so I hoped that it was well worth her while.
When I convened the judges on a phone call to select the semifinalists, I was delighted to hear Nya convey how appreciative she was of her experience serving as a judge in this contest. The exact reason for her appreciation, Nya explained, was that the judging experience gave her critical insight into to how a certain population of environmentalists interpret the concept of behavior change and how to apply behavior change strategies to their work. By better understanding how this population thinks about the problem at hand, Nya can refine Root Solution’s services, tools, and resources to better inform and educate this population. In short, the reward for participating as a judge was the valuable insight she received that helped her do her own job better.
How to frame non-monetary incentives in the workplace
When you design and pitch your open innovation program to your colleagues, it is advantageous to highlight how their participation in the community aligns with their larger goal of success in the workplace:
- Their participation will help them collaborate with their colleagues more efficiently and effectively
- The outcomes of the community will help them produce key deliverables more efficiently and effectively
- Browsing ideas lends them insights or inspiration relevant to their daily job
- The community offers a platform where they can solve a nagging problem
- Participation in the community lends them an opportunity to gain recognition in the workplace
Help your audience understand how the open innovation program aligns with their overall professional objectives. It could be as simple as “Open innovation makes your job easier!”
For more information on non-monetary incentives, see Creative Rewards and The Candle Experiment.
This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.
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Transgender Team GB athletes set to make history at Rio Olympics
Two transgender athletes are set to compete for the UK at the Rio Olympics next month.
Until this year, rules governing athletics had prevented trans and intersex people from taking part in events based on a number of medical factors.
However, ahead of this year’s Rio Games the International Olympic Committee adopted a new policy on ‘Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism’ that loosens the restrictions.
The new rules remove all restrictions on trans men taking part in men’s events. Trans women will be required to have a low testosterone level to take part in women’s events, but will not face restrictions based on genital surgical status.
According to newspaper reports, two British trans women are in contention to compete in Rio – and could become the world’s first transgender Olympians if selected to compete.
The pair, who have not publicly been identified, have already been allowed to compete at “a European sporting event”, newspapers report.
Delia Johnston of Trans In Sport said the pair had “transitioned long ago and have competed at a European championship for this country”
She explained “Their sports federations are aware of their gender history.
“They should be selected [for Rio], but fear they will be deemed too tricky.”
However, she added that she doubts the pair would win medals even if they are capable of doing so.
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Responsibility – Where are you in the power structure?
When was the last time that the world order was changed for bad or good? We’ve had some minor edits, but TBH last one was when the United Nations was formed. Some aims have been focused on, like the Paris Agreement on the environment. But yeah we’ve been kind of stuck in limbo since 24 October 1945. And that is an ongoing political hot mess in many ways that may need some re-structuring.
The same countries have the biggest wedges of the power pie and no matter how they behave, guess who keeps their power? They do. Guess who benefits from their relationship? Those with the most power of course. Some sections do trade seats, but the primary seats stay in the same hands. So things are run in a way that suits them.
Then we have the corporatocracy. The large companies that are multi-national. They have no place that taxes or controls them. Or even sees to their workers’ wage, safety and welfare. No one who oversees their product or it’s safety. At best, a country can refuse to allow it’s sales within their borders. But that does more harm than good to the country when they aren’t competing with other countries at par.
Each nation is responsible for their people and culture. Thru trade and tourism, they provide for their people. They offer media, which for the most part isn’t in-country. There are multi-national chains that want franchise space in as many towns as they can get. And somehow the country has to protect it’s own identity and citizens. Offer something unique so people with disposable income will want to travel there.
And finally, the people. They live in cities or villages for the most part, where they are policed into acceptable behaviour by doctors, social workers and police officers. And if they attend a cultural club or temple of some form, their leaders. They also have to follow the directions of their employers and colleagues.
So when someone suggests that little guy Joe or Jane has power or influence? It’s pretty naive. Yes, you could vote for another party. But does that actually change things like the amount of your salary that actually stays in your control? Like who polices you and your children?
And we do have a certain amount of drives and fears that influence us, bonds that hold us to our groups and we aren’t all well. So sometimes we act up.
So if someone comes along and asks us to follow their philosophy, can we? Maybe. But sooner or later, we’re going to hit a road block, aren’t we?
And that’s not affecting the poor, the frail or the elders of our nations, whether that nation is rich or poor, advanced or third world.
And each country has it’s pecking order of people/groups that they sabotage and try to control or assimilate into the larger order. Based on biases like race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, class/caste, education….Very few make it to the top of that hierarchy.
Then we have to start the list over again.
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First step to induce self-repair in the central nervous system
Injured axons instruct Schwann cells to build specialized actin spheres to break down and remove axon fragments, thereby starting the regeneration process
11 July 2019
Damaged peripheral nerves can regenerate after an injury, for example, following a forearm fracture. Axons, the long projections of neurons that transmit stimuli or signals to other cells, are affected in the case of injury and need to regrow to recover their function. The research team led by Professor Claire Jacob at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and at the Swiss University of Fribourg investigated the details of this repair process and have demonstrated that the same mechanism could be activated in cells of the central nervous system – after a spinal cord injury, for instance. Their results have been published in the renowned journal Cell Reports.
"An injury in the peripheral nervous system quickly triggers the activation of a fascinating repair process that allows the injured nerve to regenerate and regain its function. There is no such repair process in the central nervous system, thus injuries often lead to permanent damage such as paraplegia," said Professor Claire Jacob, Head of Cellular Neurobiology at JGU. Strategies to improve axon regeneration in the central nervous system must therefore be developed to enable healing.
Myelin-forming cells are key to the axon regeneration process. Many axons are ensheathed by myelin, which serves as a protective layer while also enabling fast and efficient signal transmission. "Myelin is extremely important for the function of the entire nervous system. However, it also hinders the repair process in case of an injury," added Jacob. Myelin is produced by Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system and by oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system. This difference has a major impact on axon regeneration, because Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes respond very differently to axonal injury.
Schwann cells can do everything: they break down myelin and damaged axons
When axons of the peripheral nervous system are injured, Schwann cells rapidly induce the disintegration of the cut-out axonal segments into small fragments, which can then be digested by Schwann cells themselves or later by macrophages. This elimination of axonal debris is one of the first and critical steps of the repair process. "Schwann cells can do everything. We discovered that they do not only digest myelin following injury, but they also induce the disintegration of the long axon segments that are separated from their cell bodies due to the injury," said Jacob. In order to do that, Schwann cells form small spheres made of a protein called actin; these actin spheres exert pressure on the isolated axon segments until their disintegration into small pieces. This targeted degradation of cell debris is essential to enable the healthy part of the axon that remained attached to the neuron cell body to grow back, connect to its former target, and, thereby, regain full functionality.
Severed axons transmit signals to Schwann cells
Of particular interest, the Jacob team found that severed axonal segments send a signal to Schwann cells that prompts them to start the actin sphere formation and axon disintegration process, an impressive and precisely coordinated form of interaction between the two cell types. If this mechanism is disrupted, axonal disintegration is slowed down and axonal fragments impair the regeneration of the affected nerve.
Manipulated oligodendrocytes can also generate actin structures
Professor Claire Jacob's team went on to study the central nervous system and the behavior of oligodendrocytes. "After an injury, oligodendrocytes either die or remain apparently unresponsive," Jacob explained. Oligodendrocytes are not (normally) able, like Schwann cells, to form actin spheres and thus break down axon segments. One reason for this is that, unlike Schwann cells, they do not express VEGFR1, the receptor that triggers the production of actin spheres in Schwann cells. In the next step, the research team induced the expression of VEGFR1 in oligodendrocytes. This allowed oligodendrocytes to produce actin structures and disintegrate severed axonal fragments. This is an essential step to promote the regeneration of neurons in the central nervous system.
The team is currently working at identifying the molecular processes that trigger the removal of myelin at the site of injury in the central nervous system. In addition to the disposal of axonal debris, myelin removal is a second prerequisite necessary for the complete regeneration of neurons. "We have discovered a pathway that accelerates myelin degradation in the peripheral nervous system and are now trying to determine whether this can also trigger myelin removal in the central nervous system," said Jacob, describing the results of on-going research in her lab.
Claire Jacob is the head of the Cellular Neurobiology Group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) since October 2018. The article, published in Cell Reports, includes findings from the research groups at the universities of Fribourg in Switzerland and Mainz. In September 2018, Claire Jacob was awarded the prestigious IRP Schellenberg Research Prize. | <urn:uuid:b590bed3-6a54-421e-aba8-47580c8185c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/8987_ENG_HTML.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933941 | 1,072 | 3.234375 | 3 |
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Charles Adler is an enabler. That is, he’s a person who makes things possible. He’s most famous as a founder of Kickstarter, one of the first global crowdfunding platforms to focus on creativity. With Kickstarter, he enabled regular people to help other regular people to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. And then he scaled the process.
Today, Charles is again in the business of helping people turn their ideas into reality. This time, he’s moved from the virtual world to the physical, often finding himself standing right in the middle of people’s creative ambitions. As founder of LostArts, Adler is creating a business model that offers access to a local space that “blends laboratory, workshop, atelier, incubator, school and playground.” Starting with Chicago, he intends to master the particulars and then scale worldwide. It might prove a little tougher with a physical space than a virtual one, but he’s surely ahead of the game on research, walking and talking his way through his space each day, engaging customers and diving into the challenges of their process.
In addition to his full-time entrepreneurial action at LostArts, Adler is also a mentor at TechStars, on the executive board of the Chicago Design Museum, and on advisory boards for The Wabash Lights and the Active Transportation Alliance, a pedestrian and cycling advocacy group. He’s quite busy. But he still made time to sit down with dscout recently to discuss his newest endeavor.
dscout: You’ve launched a company! Does that mean you don’t get to design anymore?
Charles Adler: I would argue the process of building a company is literally the same thing as design. Like “little-d design” and then the "big-D Design.” I am designing a company. I am designing a team. I think this goes back to the heart of the People Nerds series, that it is all in service of people. It's all in service of our members. Both Kickstarter and Lost Arts are reflections of people and culture. And they're reflections of the gaps in culture and gaps in our economy that hinder human potential. We fill those voids and empower people through their potential.
How do Kickstarter and Lost Arts fill cultural and economic gaps and empower people?
Kickstarter is a platform that enables people and their creativity through access to capital and community. Lost Arts empowers creative people and their projects through access to tools, space, and, most importantly, community.
The way we handle memberships at Lost Arts is designed around the relationships people have with their projects. We see weekend members working on personal projects, as well as more ambitious but exploratory projects. Our Nights & Weekends membership is designed to allow more access as you become more obsessed with your project. And full-time usually indicates you've taken the plunge or want greater flexibility to access the space. We've seen members float between the various memberships over a series of months, which is awesome.
What kind of research have you done to figure out the membership structure for Lost Arts?
The conversations I've been having with members are about their usage and the space. I'm not a very academic researcher; I just want to have a casual conversation and talk to people. This is actually an experiment. Last year was an experiment in observing and engaging with people to understand their motivations and constraints for using the space or being interested in using it. We may completely blow up the current structure of membership, but we're effectively trying to optimize it for usage.
Is Lost Arts all about creation of physical objects? That seems like a departure from the digital realm of Kickstarter.
Lost Arts is about creative work. Creative work can look like what you do as a designer, engineer, entrepreneur or an artist, whether you’re on a laptop or running material through a table saw. It's all the same thing. The toolset of the space is composed of things that support physical creation of work, as well as digital creation of work. It's all blurring now. It's been blurring for a long time but now more than ever.
We have table saws, 3D printers, and laser cutters, but we also have fiber optic internet and 3D scanners. The scanner is one way to describe that translation from physical to digital. But even with 3D printers, CNC machines or laser cutters, you start with a digital file and make something physical. What is the difference?
What do people use 3D scanning to do?
I describe 3D printing and 3D scanning as being in the age of the dot matrix printer. We are in the early stages; the fidelity is not great and people are experimenting. There's a lot of work in 3D scanning around objects for preservation and archival documentation. You think about architectural spaces and objects or even designed objects that overtime are decaying. Another use is to recreate a part that is no longer in production. Instead of trying to replicate it through iteration, like in a CAD drawing, you just scan it.
Do you have a vision of this Chicago Lost Arts space as a model for something more?
I wouldn't be interested enough in creating a workspace like this if it was just solving a Chicago problem. I'm interested in generalizable problems. I’ve spent the last 15 years visiting other creative spaces—studios, universities, maker spaces and coworking spaces—around the world. The same problems kept coming up.
One is that most creative people end up working in some sort of limited isolation. Either you’re working at a company and the majority of your time is limited to working in their space, or, if you freelance, you're working at a co-working space, or maybe in your own studio. There's limitations around each of those.
Access to tools is difficult and tools are constantly changing, 3D printing and scanning included. There are tools you don't even know you need. We're trying to make the accessibility of those tools easier, whether it be for art, entrepreneurship or product design. It should be easier to traverse different disciplines: woodworking to laser cutting to metalwork to 3D printing, ceramics, sewing, soldering, programming—all that stuff.
Co-working in a modern sense is just a bunch of people with laptops. Individuals are hungry for space and tools. The consistent story is, “I want to get out of my apartment and I want to be around people.” At Lost Arts, they say, “These are my people. They get it.”
Co-working in a modern sense is just a bunch of people with laptops. Individuals are hungry for space and tools.
You did a pop-up version of Lost Arts before you had this space, correct?
Yes, we've really only been open since August. Our first version was a pop-up in 2015. I described it as my first Petri dish. I got ownership of a 4,000 square foot building that was going to get torn down, filled it with a bunch of tools and invited 60 people from around the city in different disciplines to use the space as they wished. I didn't charge them anything, and I told them upfront that this was an experiment and whatever they might do in the space is fine by me. I just wanted to see if there was enough activity and cross-pollination with the potential to pursue something bigger.
The first stage was to test the cultural dynamics between people of different disciplines that didn't really know each other. This second version has been to test operational and economic potential. How does a space like this run? Will people find it interesting enough to pay money to be a part of it? The first time, after all, they didn't have to.
It seems you are doing this as separate, sequential short-term projects.
There's effectively three-plus jobs for me to do. One is playing the researcher, observing the space to understand where it’s going and what the community needs. Two is growing the business: marketing the space and talking to members. The third is fundraising and looking for a new space when our lease runs out. Fundraising is a whole job in itself.
Being able to give an honest effort to any one of those activities, I wanted each to have a time constraint. The role of a project manager is to define that constraint. If you think about it simply, that's what Kickstarter is about—that time constraint.
For most of the people using the space, is the goal commercialization of ideas or is it just about the creative act?
I'd say both, and that’s actually part of the instigation for me doing this. I see too many spaces that are limited in one way or the other. Some spaces just want you to tinker, to do the creative act and others are purely focused on the commercial success, like accelerators, incubators, digital product development, or entrepreneurship hubs.
There is a need and a desire to cross those paths. We're already starting to see that happen at Lost Arts. In this short period of time, the space has entrepreneurs with the same energy as the artists. As they happen to work in the same space at the same time, we see this transference of knowledge.
Most co-working spaces, as you said, really are just rooms full of people with laptops. There isn't much opportunity to spontaneously interact. When you have people working on a lot of physical, visible objects, does it change that dynamic because you can walk up and look at something, point at it and touch it?
I hadn't honestly thought about it but I think that's actually really true. Even on the digital stuff, the stuff that you're doing on your laptop, we're starting to work through that. That part of the model is happening with events, which are free to members and open up to the public as paid events. We have this small but amazing community of members working on incredible projects. One of the mantras for me with Lost Arts is this idea of making the invisible creative, visible. Out of isolation. One of the ways we fulfill that intent is showcasing talents of the community.
For example, there's a guy working in the urban, organic agriculture realm. He's building a product that more efficiently and effectively grows a better quality mushroom. One version of his product would be for Whole Foods. An alternative version is for restaurants, so they’re growing mushrooms right in their kitchen. He's got a prototype sitting at Google's office because they have a restaurant in there. Another is a kit so you could grow mushrooms at home.
I’m watching him go through the paces and hearing all these reflections about what he's going through. These are the stories you don't often hear about. When it comes to start-ups, we hear about the stories of success. We don't hear about those reflections that this entrepreneur is making: does he go left, does he go right, does he go straight? I think those are important reflections for a whole community of people to listen to and engage in conversation about. So we are giving him, and other artists and entrepreneurs like him, a microphone to talk about and promote what he's working on.
What does your day-to-day look like? Are you at the space most of the day? I picture you being a mentor to these people that come into your space.
Being in the space, I'm constantly barraged by questions and people who want to chat, so one of my resolutions for 2017 is to spend less time in the space. Ultimately I'm designing a business that I want to scale, so I actually hire mentors.
I have a staff to help people on their projects. Maybe they need some orientation on a machine or want to just brainstorm a little bit. If you think of it as a gym membership and there's a personal trainer, it's kind of the same model.
Are your memberships limited to individuals?
The School of the Art Institute, Capital One, Truth Labs, Schawk!, Lapiz and others are all member companies. Each has things that they can't quite do in their own space. It could be a physical constraint, it could be political constraint. Lost Arts is the space to explore those ideas that you can't do on the day-to-day. It's really about allowing people to come to their own conclusions and then discovering new use cases.
Last fall, School of the Art Institute hosted a class at Lost Arts. University prices skyrocketed and they need to continue to prove their value. We are a creative and commercial space, and they are a creative and academic institution. A portion of their students are there to learn to do something that they can take commercial. We become a stepping stone for them. They hosted a class at Lost Arts that’s part of a program they call Adventure Studio. That's evolved into almost like a residency program that includes a Kickstarter element.
On the other side, you've got Capital One, which is experimenting. They've got a lab in the city that is focused on the future of retail, working with a number of clients on what retail looks like in an age of connected stations. They have this beautiful, amazing office downtown, but they have a staff of people that are makers, designers, and engineers who can't really prototype the future of retail in a lacquered office space. That is where Capital One discovered that Lost Arts could be a quick little prototyping space. We are effectively co-working for the corporation.
Has the experience so far changed your original vision?
With Kickstarter, the psychological barrier to solve was, “Are they going to trust this other party to handle a transaction for this other person?“ Or, “Is this person on the other end of the project going to fulfill their thing?” With Lost Arts, the question is still: What gets people to come in?
I’m still in a state of curiosity.
I’m still in a state of curiosity. The current membership is drawn in because they need to get shit done and are actively working on something or just innately driven to function that way. That's how they're wired. Other people are like, “My kid's running late for school, and I have to get to work, and I'm exhausted at the end of the day, so I'm not going to go to the space today, but I need an event or something that's going to allow me to escape my life for a minute and come into the space.” I would probably fall into that category if I were a member.
We recognize there are members that want to and should and could come in more frequently and yet probably don't, so the next layer of the experiment is how do we find our sweet spot with the array of events that we put on. Whether that is around design technique, or to get people over the technical hump with demonstrations about how tools work, or just a speaker series that gets somebody inspired by someone else's work. That's really the focus, I think, for the next six months.
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You know that uneasy feeling when your stomach feels all queasy and churned? A very normal looking day can turn upside down due to an upset stomach. Despite knowing that feeling, you are unable to do anything about it. While you may not easily know what your stomach is trying to tell you, here are a few symptoms that may help you understand your upset stomach better.
Indigestion or dyspepsia is merely a sign of some underlying issue like ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or any other stomach condition. Depending on the cause of your indigestion you may require specific treatments.
Symptoms of indigestion -
Indigestion is mainly a full, uncomfortable sensation in your tummy during or after a meal. You may also complain of bloating, belching, gaseous distension, nausea, vomiting, sour erui gave alctations, acidic taste in the mouth, fullness of abdomen during or after a meal, retrosternal burning, tummy ache, loud growling and gurgling in your stomach. Your symptoms tend to worsen when you’re stressed. Swallow too much air when you eat? Your belching and bloating get aggravated.
Causes of indigestion -
Dyspepsia can be functional or pathological. Based on the following causes, you may consult your physician for appropriate treatment.
1. Drinking -
Drinking too much alcohol or caffeine can cause significant dyspepsia. If you are someone who gulps down carbonated or fizzy drinks with every meal, you are the perfect candidate for developing dyspepsia.
2. Eating -
Eat your meal too fast? You tend to overeat? You are bound to complain of dyspepsia. Bloating and fullness are going to haunt you through the day. Eating spicy, greasy or fatty foods, acidic foods like tomatoes, oranges, causes severe indigestion.
3. Lifestyle -
Too much stress and add to that cigarette smoking are the perfect combination for developing dyspepsia. Stress has always known to cause a lot of physical issues and dyspepsia has been one of the commonest. Along with stress, if you have erratic schedule of eating and sleeping and a habit of smoking cigarettes, then you are inviting indigestion daily.
4. Medicines -
Do you pop in antibiotics and pain killers for every time you fall sick? Well, you are in for trouble then. Painkillers and antibiotics tend to irritate the stomach lining, causing dyspepsia.
5. Medical conditions -
Diseases like GERD, anxiety, depression, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, peptic ulcers, stomach cancers, can all cause indigestion.
How can you prevent your indigestion?
The best solution to prevent dyspepsia is to avoid the foods and change your lifestyle that may cause your indigestion. Maintain a food diary to know the different foods that lead to your stomach troubles.
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Did you know that manufacturers are moving production towards tyres with an increased diameter? As well as the aesthetic appeal, larger designs offer superior grip and better handling.
That's not the only change ongoing. In the near future, sensors able to report tyre and road conditions are expected to help drivers achieve a safer journey. It's clear that safety, as well as efficiency, will continue to play a critical role.
"The demand for reduced rolling resistance and improved fuel economy is here to stay,'' says Herbert Fruhmann, Market Manager Tyres. "To provide a sustainable solution like this, you need to dig into the raw materials, supply chain and production. Nynas tyre oils offer a range of technical benefits which support these ambitions and add sustainable value.''
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Not until Alfred Hitchcock went along with “The Birds” in 1963 did people commonly view birds as animals that required their very own technique of parasite control. Birds were thought about as gorgeous beings that skyrocketed via the sky, much to our awe as well as envy. And indeed, they can be attractive in a handful.
Nevertheless, when birds start to overwhelm your house and neighbourhood, they can swiftly become a problem that should be gotten rid of with the help of a pest control solution. Bird problems can occur in city areas and can affect industrial structures, food distribution centres and multi-family real estate devices, producing health and wellness and architectural dangers and ending up being a nuisance to individuals who live and operate in these locations. If a large bird population has moved right into your home or commercial building, an expert Pest Control Adelaide operator may be required to move them back out.
Typical Bird Troubles
Pigeons, sparrows, crows, starlings, swallows, and gulls are the most common problem birds, particularly in metropolitan areas. Pigeons, especially, are notorious for their persistence in heavily populated communities, where sufficient food sources are available. Pigeon removal is the most widely asked for out of all the bird control solutions.
While most people think about birds as more of a problem than a harmful bug, they can present a wellness threat to human beings in multitudes. Fleas, ticks, mites and a lot more ectoparasites tend to flourish in areas where birds nest as well as leave their droppings. Bird problems can additionally cause contamination of ducts when they are nesting. This will certainly develop the demand for your chimney to be completely cleaned and sterilized to stop wellness concerns.
A bird invasion can additionally indicate a demand for other parasite control solutions, such as rodent elimination, as rats may likewise have accessibility to developing entry factors.
Insect Control Approaches for Birds
When managing a big bird invasion, it’s suggested to bring in a specialist parasite control service instead of resolving the problem on your own. An important thing to keep in mind before trying any type of pest control by yourself is the law. Killing any other bird besides pigeons, house sparrows, and also Australian starlings (unless you’re legitimately searching) is against the regulation in practically every state.
For this reason, among others, bug control for birds is various than regular approaches. A skilled green insect control company is the most effective method to eliminate problem birds from your house or business. They will take a holistic strategy of insect prevention and removal, causing marginal harm to you or the environment.
Bird parasite control solutions tend to consist of:
- Bird and nest elimination.
- Bird and also nest relocation.
- Feces removal.
- Pressure washing and also purification of the area.
- Bird exclusion.
- Bird deterrents, such as spikes, activity sensors, and visual and audio barriers.
Various other solutions frequently needed with bird problems are air duct cleaning as well as home upkeep solutions. These are necessary aspects that numerous requirements along with bird elimination and relocation solutions to assist in a healthy environment.
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Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, is supporting the Rakia Israeli space mission by hosting the communication to the specialized control centre, located at its headquarters in Tel Aviv where it will also be accommodating a visitor center. On April 8th, Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe is scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Whilst there, he will conduct 35 experiments, ranging from research in food and agriculture, medical testing, the impact of microgravity on plastic degradation, to experiments with transient luminous events, and more. The mission is set to last 8 to 10 days.
As part of the undertaking, a unique Rakia Mission Center has been built at the Check Point Software offices in Tel Aviv. This will include a control room from which scientists, artists and educators can monitor the activities of Eytan Stibbe and enable them to make necessary changes to experiments in real-time, while conducting a direct dialogue with the control room of the ISS in the United States.
“In recent years, civilian companies have spent billions of dollars trying to create an ‘easy’ path into space which has created new technologies but in turn, new challenges for cyber security,” said Oded Vanunu, Head of Product Vulnerabilities Research at Check Point Software Technologies. “With a huge amount of communication and data between spacecraft and Earth, every phase of the Rakia mission needs to be protected. We are proud to secure this vital communications between the space station and our control centre on Earth.”
The mission will enable Israeli entrepreneurs and researchers to advance innovative ideas and will provide a rare opportunity for them to test their enterprises in a unique study environment, thereby contributing to international and Israeli research industries. The visitor center, hosted by Check Point, will make the Rakia Mission Centre accessible to thousands of students, allowing them to experience the human journey into space through interactive elements and inspiring educational activities. The center is divided into five complexes, each representing a different aspect of the mission:
- The International Space Station Complex
- The “Rakia” Mission Complex
- The Scientific Experiments Complex
- The Life in the International Space Station Complex
- The Inspirational “There is no dream too far away” Complex.
Visitors will be able to experience a visualization of the Crisper experiment from Tel Aviv University and the Volcanic Institute, which will test genetic diagnosis of viruses and bacteria in space missions under micro-gravity conditions. In addition, a remote medical experiment will be simulated – stress detection and monitoring the well-being of remote astronauts, by “Sheba Medical Center”, which recognizes the development of emotional distress and stressful situations through an app. The app will analyze the emotional state of visitors, just like that of astronauts on the space station. The inspirational “No Dream Too Far” area is a special photography exhibit that demonstrates the “Coppola” aka the window through which the astronauts observe the Earth from the International Space Station.
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Ingeteam Technology Reduces CO2 Emissions by 40% in Brussels Metro
Ingeteam has been selected by the Brussels metro operator (Brussels Inter-communal Transport Company or STIB) to supply five energy recovery systems which, together with other measures, will allow the company to lower its C02 emissions by 40% from now until 2030 and to cut its energy bill. One of these Ingeteam systems has already been installed in the Metro and, after confirming its good results, it was decided to increase the number of systems installed.
The Brussels metro is one of the most modern metros in Europe, as it started operating in 1976. It has seven lines, 69 stations and more than 130 million users per year.
Within the framework of its commitment to sustainability, the STIB is implementing new measures to optimise energy consumption. With this aim in mind, the Ingeteam Ingeber technology was selected for its ability to recover between 10 to 30% of railway traction energy. Trains not only consume energy, but also produce energy through the heat generated during braking. Ingeteam has developed its own technology to recover this train braking energy.
After four years of investigation by the Ingeteam Traction Division and a three million Euro investment, the company has developed a system to convert this braking heat into electrical energy to be returned to the power grid. This system is ideal for sub-urban trains, trams and metros, given the fact that these are all required to make many stops, which is precisely when the Ingeber recovers the heat energy.
Currently five of these systems have been installed in the Bilbao Metro, a further three in Bielefeld (Germany) and another in Malaga, for ADIF. With regard to the Bilbao metro, of the total amount of energy recovered using these systems, 30% goes to the sub-urban railway and 60% to the grid. Thanks to this technology, the metro returns to the grid the equivalent of the annual power consumed by 1,500 families. As far as the Malaga and Bielefeld projects are concerned, in the course of the first year Ingeber made it possible to recover 1 million kWh and 650.000 kWh / per year, respectively. | <urn:uuid:02c5a333-259c-4197-b898-0eeba9025914> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://railway-news.com/ingeteam-technology-reduces-co2-emissions-40-brussels-metro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957589 | 465 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Spartanburg, SC – In celebration of Arbor Day, AFL donated over 600 longleaf pine trees to District Five Intermediate School students in support of its Take Root Program. The program began in 2005 when AFL had a goal to plant 5,000 trees in five years. Having exceeded this goal, AFL set another goal – to plant 12,000 trees in five more years. Sixth grade students at Berry Shoals and Beech Springs Intermediate schools in Duncan, S.C., now play a role in helping AFL accomplish this initiative.
“From reducing water and electricity consumption, to recycling paper and plastic, AFL takes a proactive role in being a good steward of our environment,” said Corie Culp, community relations manager for AFL. “Our Take Root program is part of this initiative. By providing trees, we believe we are developing awareness of environmental stewardship at a young age that will continue for generations.”
In November 2012, fifth grade students from Berry Shoals and Beech Springs Intermediate schools participated in this program, each receiving a tree to take home and plant. In addition to the donations given to students, AFL’s Take Root Program hosts events at its domestic and international locations to build awareness about our environment.
AFL’s Community Outreach Program supports numerous and diverse causes to include bettering communities through ACT (AFL Community Team) projects and grants, improving the environment through the Take Root Program, and supporting victims of tragedy through disaster relief.
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how to format an essay in chicago style
Page numbers can be placed either in the top right or the bottom center of the page – one or the other, not both.
In author-date style, citations are placed directly in the text in parentheses. In this style, you have some flexibility about how exactly to integrate the citation:
This is the text of your paper.
Paragraphs and indentation: Indent all paragraphs consistently. Use tabs rather than spaces for indentation, columns of text, and other content requiring consistent alignment. Block quotations have their own rules for indentation, depending on whether they are prose or poetry.
—. Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
Note– This paper is written using the footnote/endnote style. The same general formatting rules apply to the author/date format.
Footnotes and endnotes
Assemble your paper in the following order
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When residents at one stop on Interim Buffalo School Superintendent Tonja Williams’ “listening tour” called for more teachers of color, it may have sounded like an echo chamber.
The fact that this demand has reverberated for years only adds to the frustration of parents and other advocates who recognize the importance of having more teachers who share the backgrounds of the students of color who make up more than three-quarters of the district’s enrollment.
But it’s not just the city of Buffalo that falls short. A new analysis by the consumer research site Smartest Dollar found that the Buffalo Niagara region as a whole has the 12th fewest minority teachers of the nation’s top 100 metropolitan areas.
Using US Census Bureau data, the study found that while 34% of the region’s students are nonwhite, only 12.3% of the instructors are teachers of color. But while Buffalo Niagara may be near the bottom in terms of raw numbers, its 21.7 percentage point “teacher diversity gap” is identical to the gap facing the nation as a whole, according to this analysis.
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Why does this gap matter?
Because research has long shown that having more teachers of color – especially in heavily Black and Hispanic districts like Buffalo – can improve everything from achievement levels to special education placements to suspension rates.
For instance, a 2017 American Educational Research Association study found “consistent evidence” that having more teachers of the same race as students results in “reduced rates of exclusionary discipline for Black students.”
Similarly, a 2012 analysis in Research & Reviews cited the “cultural mismatch that hinders the effectiveness of teachers” as a key factor contributing to disparities in educational outcomes.
Buffalo school officials – pressed by parent advocates – have long been mindful of the impact of such gaps, but can cite little actual improvement. Asked on the We The Parents of WNY radio show recently, Williams said the district has tried recruiting at conferences and Black colleges and universities, but that she has come to believe in “growing our own” by creating a pipeline that channels current Buffalo students into teaching.
However, a 2017 analysis cited in the new study indicates it may not be that easy.
The Urban Institute found that the problem is “not as simple as people of color choosing not to become teachers.” In fact, Black and Hispanic college graduates become teachers at almost the same rates as their white peers. According to the institute, 10.8% of white college graduates were teachers in 2015, compared to 9.4% of Hispanic and 8.6% of Black graduates.
Rather, the problem starts much sooner. Proportionately fewer Blacks and Hispanics earn high school diplomas than whites, and that gap becomes a chasm by the time college degrees are handed out. The Urban Institute study found, for instance, that “while 40% of white adults and 65% of Asian adults had college degrees in 2015, only 21% of Black adults and 16% of Hispanic adults had earned such a credential.” That college graduation disparity creates a much smaller pool of potential Black and Hispanic teachers.
Paired with the research showing the impact teachers of color can have on minority students, those numbers mean society is creating a self-perpetuating cycle of educational inequality: Fewer teachers of color contributes to disparities in achievement that result in fewer Black and Hispanic students qualifying for college, which then results in fewer minority graduates who can become teachers to help the next cohort of students.
Despite the recent emphasis on alternative credentialing programs to increase the number of minority teachers, the Urban Institute concludes that “the most important first step is getting people of color through college.”
Efforts like those of Say Yes Buffalo will definitely help. But it still will not be easy in the face of conservatives’ lawsuits and US Supreme Court hostility to college affirmative action programs. Yet it’s essential – and not just for minority students. White kids, too, benefit from seeing people of color in positions of authority at the head of a classroom as well as from the perspectives they bring in preparing students for a diverse work world.
Teachers of color who share the backgrounds of many of their students may also have new approaches for getting buy-in from parents who – whether they or teachers like it or not – are essential educational partners. Yet despite their critical role in signaling to kids the importance of education, many either do not get involved or take the wrong tack in responding to issues their children face.
However, it’s one thing for schools to complain about parents who are AWOL or who make things worse by creating problems themselves. It’s another for school staffs to know how to cultivate a more welcoming environment to make parents feel like actual partners rather than adversaries. Having more diverse staffs can help create that environment.
But as the combination of studies makes clear, Williams – or whoever the next permanent superintendent is – can not close that teacher diversity gap without also closing the educational achievement gap.
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THE PHILOSOPHY FOR KIDS PROGRAM
Inspiring Critical Thinking and Innovation
P4K is a partnership between public school gifted programs and John Carroll University. John Carroll sends undergraduate students in pairs to 5th thru 8th-grade classrooms to teach philosophy for one hour each week. These classes focus on discussing the great ideas of human history—e.g., freedom, identity, happiness, peace, love, reality. What have great thinkers said about these ideas? What do we think about these ideas? These are the kinds of questions discussed in P4K classrooms. There are no right answers.
Our academic objectives are as follows:
To acquire knowledge of the history of philosophy
To recognize and appreciate opposing viewpoints
To improve critical thinking skills
To provide practice with self-expression
To create a feeling of connectedness within our community
Interested in Bringing the Philosophy For Kids Program to Your School?
School Partnerships: Philosophy for Kids partners with local schools to bring our instructors into the classroom to inspire creativity and innovation in today's youth. Mainly based on Cleveland's east side, this partnership is growing and flourishing with students and instructors alike growing from the interactions and lessons!
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Data from: Smaller is better: drift in gaze measurements due to pupil dynamics
Drewes, Jan; Zhu, Weina; Hu, Yingzhou; Hu, Xintian (2015), Data from: Smaller is better: drift in gaze measurements due to pupil dynamics, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3ts56
Camera-based eye trackers are the mainstay of eye movement research and countless practical applications of eye tracking. Recently, a significant impact of changes in pupil size on gaze position as measured by camera-based eye trackers has been reported. In an attempt to improve the understanding of the magnitude and population-wise distribution of the pupil-size dependent shift in reported gaze position, we present the first collection of binocular pupil drift measurements recorded from 39 subjects. The pupil-size dependent shift varied greatly between subjects (from 0.3 to 5.2 deg of deviation, mean 2.6 deg), but also between the eyes of individual subjects (0.1 to 3.0 deg difference, mean difference 1.0 deg). We observed a wide range of drift direction, mostly downward and nasal. We demonstrate two methods to partially compensate the pupil-based shift using separate calibrations in pupil-constricted and pupil-dilated conditions, and evaluate an improved method of compensation based on individual look-up-tables, achieving up to 74% of compensation. | <urn:uuid:9b9b0fcd-cbcf-41ea-a36e-536191d53810> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://datadryad.org:443/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.3ts56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.908238 | 301 | 1.75 | 2 |
When I was growing up, I remember being fixated with trying different side hustles or money-making ideas.
I always wanted to invent stuff. And I even tried random ideas like selling clay figurines at school and starting a blog back in highschool.
Making money when you’re a kid is great. However, the tough part is that many companies only hire kids when they’re 14 or older.
However, you’re not out of luck if you’re willing to get a bit creative. In this post, I’m covering some of the best jobs for 11 year olds you can use to make extra money and also learn some valuable skills.
Let’s get to it.
The Best Jobs For 11 Year Olds In 2022
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, you generally have to be 14 or older to be employed by a company. And for some jobs, like working on farms, you have to be at least 16. Plus, labor laws also set limits on how many hours kids can work.
These laws are good things and protect children. But if you want to find a job at 11 years old, it definitely makes things difficult.
However, between cash gigs and working online, there are still plenty of jobs for eleven year olds that you can try.
1. Yard Work
One of the most traditional jobs for eleven year olds is to do yard work for money. This could involve a range of tasks like:
- Raking leaves
- Pulling weeds
- Cutting the lawn
- Helping with general gardening work
If you have a large property, you could consider paying your kid an allowance in exchange for some lawn care duties. Alternatively, they can go door-to-door (with an older sibling perhaps) and offer to rake people’s lawns or do some easy work for a bit of quick cash.
I’ve been blogging at This Online World since 2018. And in 2021, This Online World earned $92,000.
But I actually started my first blog when I was around 11 years old and entering high school. It was a free blog hosted on BlogSpot called “According to Tom.”
The blog was basically a journal where I wrote about recipes I was trying (I liked to bake back then), books I was reading, and other random things that crossed my mind.
It never made money and barely had any readers. And honestly, I think most blogs run by 11 year olds won’t make much money, at least at the start.
However, when I was in college, my previous blogging experience from way back when helped me land an internship at a digital marketing agency (I’m not joking, it’s why I got the job.)
That internship went on to pay over $20,000 as a college side hustle and was also my first full-time job out of school.
So, even though blogging wasn’t a huge success in terms of a job for 11 year olds, the skills it taught me were far more valuable than any paycheck would have been back then.
If your kid has a knack for writing or likes to tell stories, I think starting a blog is an incredible idea.
Plus, you can blog for free on WordPress, or try writing on Medium; you don’t need to be super tech-savvy to get started.
3. Pet Sitter
If your 11 year old likes working with animals, you can always try starting a pet sitting or dog walking business with them.
This is another classic job for kids, and it’s the sort of job that teaches responsibility and discipline as well.
What’s nice about Rover is that you set your availability and the types of pets you work with, plus the services you offer.
You can also try finding business the good old fashion way and go door-to-door or ask your friends.
Babysitting is another common job for 11 year olds, and it’s a great way for your kid to make a bit of pocket change every once in a while.
To get started, have your kid complete a first aid and babysitting course from the Red Cross or another reputable organization.
This ensures they know first aid and how to properly do their job, which is obviously very important.
From there, you can ask people in your neighborhood or your friends or family to call you if they ever need babysitting help.
This is also one of the higher-paying jobs 11 year olds can do, and in many cities, babysitters earn $15 per hour or more!
It might take a bit of time to find your first clients, but this is the type of job that can last through high school and even into college.
But nothing stops you from starting a YouTube channel at 11 and working on growing your own following and even making money in the process.
In fact, one of the highest paid YouTubers in the world is Ryan Kaji, who makes millions of dollars with his toy review channel.
Granted, Ryan is younger than 11, and the channel is run by his parents and him.
But you get the idea; anyone can make money on YouTube, and a channel could be a fun project you and your 11 year old take on.
6. Sell Baked Goods
Another classic job for 11 year olds is to make and sell baked goods.
Schools often run bake sales or similar events to raise money. But nothing stops you from trying the exact same thing and selling baked goods to people you know or at local events.
At a farmer’s market in my town, there’s always a family-run stall that sells donuts and other baked goods like brownies and cake pops.
You could take this approach, or even try selling baked goods at city events or by going door-to-door.
Just research if your city or state requires any food permits and what the legal process is like.
7. Flip Stuff For Cash
Retail arbitrage is the process of buying goods and then reselling them for profit. People do this all the time by buying popular goods from places like Walmart and Kohl’s and then reselling them somewhere.
This is also a great side job you can start with your 11 year old to teach them some entrepreneurial skills.
To get started, you can buy popular goods like electronics, apparel, toys, and home goods on discount from big box stores like Walmart.
From there, you can use a variety of selling apps to try flipping your merchandise for profit.
Some popular selling platforms you can use include:
- Mercari: An excellent selling app where you can sell pretty much anything.
- OfferUp: Great for selling stuff locally and it’s completely free to list.
- Facebook Marketplace: Another excellent way to sell stuff locally for cash.
- Poshmark: One of the best ways to sell clothing, shoes, and handbags online.
And even if you don’t make thousands of dollars, the arbitrage lessons your kid learns along the way could be extremely valuable.
Extra Reading – The Best Sites & Apps Like Facebook Marketplace.
8. Snow Removal
One way I made money with friends when I was younger was to go door-to-door offering to shovel people’s driveway.
I grew up in Canada, so we had plenty of snow many winters. And for $10 to $20 a driveway, people were more than happy to let me and some friends shovel their driveway before it froze over.
This is a fun, easy side hustle for 11 year olds, and all you need is a shovel and some hard work to get started.
9. Start A Car Wash Business
Like selling baked goods, car washes are another way schools and teams often raise money for charity. But you can also turn this into a business and offer to wash cars for $5 to $10 a pop to make some quick cash.
I’ve seen kids do this in my neighborhood once, and all you need is a water supply, some rags/towels, and car wash soap (and maybe some wax).
10. Paper Route
In many states and countries, you can be 11 years old and take on a paper route. This is another great job that teaches discipline since your kid has to stick to a schedule and assigned delivery route.
Kids I knew did this all the time when I grew up. Typically, you get paid a small amount of money per house, so a route of 75-100 houses or more can add up to a decent chunk of change.
I know many parents who started walking with their kids to show them how to do the job before giving them more independence. Overall, it’s a classic job for kids, and it can pay a decent amount as well.
Extra Reading – The 40+ Best Summer Jobs For Students.
11. Start An Online Business
These days, there are so many different ways to make money online. However, one massive downside is that many online freelancing websites or ecommerce platforms require being at least 13 to start working.
But this doesn’t mean you’re completely out of luck. After all, if you’re 11, you can always run an online business with an older sibling or your parents for a fun new side project.
There are also plenty of ideas to try, including popular ones like:
- Selling Etsy print on demand products
- Running an online Shopify store
- Selling your design with websites like Redbubble or Society6
Granted, getting an online business up and running and making money takes time.
But I truly think this is a great project to work on as a family, and there’s no telling how much money you might make.
12. Pool Cleaner
A classic seasonal job for 11 year olds is to work as a pool cleaner.
If your family has a pool, this task could be part of a monthly allowance. But you could also learn how to clean pools and even maintain the right PH levels and then offer this service to a neighbor or two.
Even More Job Ideas For 11 Year Olds
If you’re still wondering what jobs are good for an 11 year old, some other classic ideas you can try include:
- Selling soda pops and cold water at sports games
- Setting up a lemonade stand
- Being someone’s errand runner
- Being a shop cleaner (if your parents own some sort of shop or business)
- Getting into voice acting
- Entering competitions (writing competitions, sports, you name it)
I also think it’s incredibly valuable to volunteer. Again, this doesn’t pay you with cash directly, but the lessons you learn and the people you meet can be worth way more than making an extra $100 bucks.
Tips For Finding A Job
Now that you know some of the best jobs for 11 year olds, here are a few tips you can keep in mind when searching for work to make the process easier:
- Ask Friends & Family: One of the easiest ways for 11 year olds to find work is to find cash gigs with friends or family. So, put out some feelers to find your next babysitting gig, or to find a dog walking job.
- Set A Target: How much money do you want to make? Different gigs have different income potential, so pick one that makes sense and also have patience.
- Don’t Neglect Grades: School is important, especially when you’re younger. After all, building good study habits can help you in other areas of your life and can also help you win scholarships down the line to pay for school if you want to go.
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I hope this list of jobs for 11 year olds helps you find some extra work if you’re 11 and you’re reading this. And if you’re a parent, I hope it helps you guide your child into finding some money-making opportunities.
There are so many creative ways for kids to make quick money. And you can even learn some incredibly valuable life lessons along the way that are way more valuable than a paycheck.
Best of luck!
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After a plan to limit the coyote population in two west metro suburbs went awry, Edina Police Chief Jeff Long has a message for residents: "Coyotes are here to stay."
Community members have complained for years about coyotes that come too close to homes and have lost their instinctive fear of humans, KSTP reports.
In February, the cities of Edina and St. Louis Park hired a contracted sharp shooter to hunt coyotes at night in non-residential areas.
"On the first night, on the first shot, we had a house hit," Long told KSTP. "Shooting them, taking a human life is not worth trying to thin an animal."
In Long's blog on the city's website, the police chief offers a solution.
"The choice we have is to haze this animal or let it continue to hold us hostage. Hazing is the only safe method that works in residential settings."
To restore the animals' fear of humans, Long is advising that residents keep their distance and use a loud, authoritative voice, blow a whistle or throw objects towards coyotes to frighten them.
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Inspiration and Preparation
Can we rescue at least part of this day to prepare the altars of our hearts as well as the chancels of our churches? As we make last minute adjustments on new suits and dresses and hats, is it possible to adorn our souls and spirits in new beauty?
In many churches Easter services begin shortly after sundown today; some continue all night long and the drama of the first Easter is re-enacted. Dark since Good Friday, the churches spring to light as the candles are lit again and worshipers recall how new life spaked back into the lifeless Form in the borrowed tomb.
HEARING GOD'S VOICE
"So they (Joseph and Nicodemus) took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews" (John 19:40).
Good Friday is drawing to its close. With the Passover quickly approaching, Pilate orders the legs of the crucified men to be broken so they will die quickly. The legs of the two criminals hanging at Jesus' side are broken. But since Jesus is already dead His side is pierced with a spear instead and out flows blood and water-proof that the King of the Jews is truly dead.
That's when a secret disciple of Jesus steps forward. Joseph of Arimathea is a prominent member of the Jewish high court who did not agree with their decision to put Jesus to death. He boldly steps out of the darkness and asks Pilate for permission to bury Jesus' body. Pilate grants it.
Another secret disciple joins him. The Pharisee Nicodemus who had snuck through the darkness of night to talk to Jesus now steps into the light and helps Joseph lay our Lord's body to rest in Joseph's new tomb.
But it is only a rest. Death has no hold over Jesus' body. It cannot even touch His body with the stain of decay. On the third day He will rise to life and live forever.
One day you and I will be laid in our own graves. But for all of us who trust in Jesus Christ as our Savior, our future will be the same as His. Our bodies will rest in the grave until He returns; then Jesus will raise us to share paradise with Him forever.
Today is the "quiet day" of Holy Week. Jesus' body lay lifeless in the ground that holy Saturday. But the ground gave up the body of this King, who stood His ground for us.
When Jesus saw that He had done all His Father had asked of Him, He willingly gave up His life with a shout of victory. The world around Him responded to the awful truth that the Son of God was dead. The earth trembled and shook at the news. The curtain that had long separated the holy of holies from the holy place in the temple was torn in two, signifying that we now have direct access to the throne of our heavenly Father. Saints walked out of their tombs into Jerusalem, proving that Jesus' death had given final victory over death once and for all.
Having been an eye witness to the power of God manifested in this man Jesus, the Gentile centurion spoke words of faith: "Surely He was the Son of God!"
Death could not conquer the Son of God, as the empty tomb on Easter morning proved.
God willing, this Easter morning, you will see through the shame and humiliation, the weakness and suffering to behold Him as He really is, the victorious Son of God! We will praise our priceless King tomorrow, throughout life, in death, and for all eternity.
Here we rest in wonder, viewing all our sins on Jesus laid, and a full redemption flowing from the sacrifice He made.
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A report by a coalition of over 100 children’s charities has found the government has failed to make progress on 80 per cent of the recommendations on children’s rights made by the UN four years ago.
In its annual report, the Children’s Rights Alliance criticised the government for failing to make “significant progress” on 66 of the 78 recommendations made by the UN Committee of the Rights of the Child in 2002.
The report, The State of Children’s Rights in England, highlighted conditions for children in custody and asylum seeking children as areas of particular concern, and said that it was investigating whether restraint techniques used in four privately run secure training centres were legal.
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Edinburgh is the political and cultural center of Scotland, it divided into Old and New cities, a popular destination for tourists. Local people - educated and intelligent people, also live here some of the best teachers in the world, and the overall standard of living is very high. Historical value has many attractions, and the capital of Scotland has always been creative: many writers created their own literary masterpieces here, and in 2004, at the initiative of UNESCO, Edinburgh was awarded the title "City of Literature".
The advantages of education for foreign students in Scotland
In Edinburgh, the program of teaching students is consistent with the high quality of Scottish education and has the following features:
- possibility of transfer after preparatory courses for a bachelor's program without additional tests
- qualitative teaching methods
- high level of organization
- safe country
- link schools with prestigious universities around the world
- wide range of knowledge
- international diplomas, certificates are accepted by educational institutions all over the world
- impeccable reputation of educational institutions.
Education in Edinburgh has high rankings on the world stage and is popular with foreign students.
Organization of education in Scotland
- 3-5 years: pre-school education
- 5-12 years old: primary school
- 12-16 years: compulsory secondary education
- 16-18 years: the highest level of secondary education
- from 18 years: higher education.
Secondary education in Edinburgh schools
Children in Edinburgh start their education in primary school at the age of 7, and it is enough for foreign students to have a high level of English for admission. Scottish children study in public schools, for foreign students are available private and boarding schools.
The student attends secondary school from the age of 12 to 15-16, at the end of the day the students take exams and receive a Scottish Certificate of Education diploma. After middle-class students choose: to continue schooling and get a second diploma of Higher Grade or go to college.
For admission to prestigious and elite universities abroad, it is important to additionally finish the "6 year" of the high school (Sixth Year), take exams and get the Scottish Certificate of Sixth Year Studies.
Forms of education:
- learning in-game
- interactive workshops
- work in groups
- individual lessons
- laboratory works
Pre-university courses for foreign students for admission to a foreign university
- International Baccalaureate - the program for 2 years to prepare for admission, has several compulsory disciplines to study and profile to choose from; In contrast to A-Level, it is suitable for students who have not yet decided on their future profession.
- International Foundation - an annual program of pre-university program is great for foreign students who want to improve their academic skills, level of thinking and level of English. It should be borne in mind that not all universities accept the diploma of the International Foundation, for example, Oxford and Cambridge universities consider it insufficient.
- International Year One - the program replaces one year of study at the undergraduate course at the university. Foreign students after graduation can apply for a program to obtain the necessary academic knowledge for admission to the university.
- A-Level - the course allows you to carefully study the core subjects before entering the university; the program is designed for 2 years. For the first year of schooling, students choose 4-5 subjects, the curriculum for the second year provides for up to 3 subjects to choose from. An approximate analogue of the International Baccalaureate.
Language courses for study abroad
In Edinburgh, for foreign students, language courses are organized all year round, the programs for summer are very popular. On linguistic programs it is possible to improve the level of academic English, prepare for IELTS, CELTA, CAE, FCE, study business English and more. If a student of the university does not have enough of his level of language skills, then in parallel with basic education he can engage in additional linguistic courses in groups or individually.
The cost of education in Edinburgh
The price for education differs depending on the degree of prestige and popularity of the institution, residence / meal and program.
The approximate cost of pre-university courses in Edinburgh:
- program International Baccalaureate = from 10,415 £ / term
- program International Foundation = from 5,085 £ / trimester
- International Year One = from 11,900 £ / 2 semesters
- course A-Level = from 6,100 £ / term
- English courses = from 570 £ /2 weeks
- English courses in preparation for IELTS = from 650 £ / 2 weeks.
List of examples of educational institutions with pre-university programs for foreign students
- Edinburgh Napier University is a modern and prestigious university that enables students from all over the world to study the International Year One program in several fields of science. After the completion of the program, the student has the opportunity to enroll in the same university in order to obtain a bachelor's degree. The university occupies a leading position in the TOP lists of institutions in terms of the level of technical equipment of the campus.
- Fettes college is a popular boarding school in Edinburgh for students: a large percentage of students go on to the top universities of the world, for example, to Oxford and Cambridge. Available courses: A-Level (16-18 years) and International Baccalaureate (16-18 years).
- University of Edinburgh - the leading institute in Edinburgh offers a preparatory program for the International Foundation with the study of additional subjects and English, and with the successful completion of the course, admission to the undergraduate program is guaranteed. Academic English course is available.
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“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.” ~ John Dewey
Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a rut? The way you approach each day largely determines the kind of life you have.
At some point, you’ve most likely experienced a troublesome event until you decided to adjust how you looked at the situation. Then, once you altered your perspective, you were able to clarify the issues and find a solution.
Changing your perspective can be enlightening. A fresh look at a situation can even open your eyes to see a person differently.
Try these strategies to alter your perception for more positive results in your life:
- Entertain the improbable. Maybe you don’t think something is possible. But what if your desire could become a possibility by just changing your perspective? For example, maybe you’ve tried dieting over and over again without getting the results that you want. But what if this time, you shift your perspective from dieting to changing your lifestyle. You could then state with confidence, “I am losing weight and getting fit.”
- Vow to be more accepting. New people and situations are inevitable. Sometimes, the best way to change your perspective is to be open to new ideas brought by your new acquaintances. Why not see what happens if you’re more open-minded and accepting? Tell yourself you’re letting go of your “old” templates for looking at things.
- Seek a more positive lifestyle. Whenever you want to enhance your life, shift the way you see something to a more positive position. Let’s say your two sisters went out shopping and didn’t invite you to go. You might feel left out, rejected, and even angry about it. But what if you were to view the situation differently, even positively? Perhaps they didn’t really plan to shop. Maybe it happened spontaneously out of a need they both had to go shopping for something right then. Plus, your birthday’s coming up in 2 weeks. Maybe they’re planning a special surprise for you. Recognize that when you focus on having a more positive life, your perspective will change for the better.
- Avoid any old ways of looking at things. When you make the connection that your perspective is what creates any discontent you feel, you can then choose to view things differently. For example, let’s say you usually think your boss gives you the project with the most work just because he wants to dump on you. What would happen if you were to shift your perspective to the idea that your manager trusts you most to successfully complete the most challenging projects? You’d feel a lot differently about your boss, job, and your own abilities.
- Give people another chance. Even if someone has upset you, entertain the idea that it wasn’t intentional. Maybe they were having a rough day or made a mistake in judgment. Perhaps a misunderstanding took place between you. One of the best ways to get out of a rut is to change how you respond to those around you. A beautiful strategy to change your perspective is to let go of a grudge. Try it, you’ll love it. After all, grudges and anger hurt you far more than they hurt the other person.
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RHS Handbook: Container Gardening offers advice on creating impressive partnerships of pots and plants for every style of container and every size of garden. With more than 525 species and varieties of container plants you'll discover clever ways to transform your garden's design using everything from self-watering pots to hanging baskets. Learn the smartest ways to display and keep plants and which are the must have pots for edible, ornamental, and long-term schemes in tubs baskets & boxes. Beautifully illustrated with inspirational photography and clear step-by-step drawings you'll save money, time and avoid the pitfalls all year round.
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This section is from the book "The Law Of Real Property and Other Interests In Land", by Herbert Thorn Dike Tiffany. Also available from Amazon: A Treatise on the Modern Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land .
While a conveyance is presumed to have been made with the full and free consent of the grantor, and correctly to embody his intention, it may be shown that this is not the case, by reason of mistake, fraud, duress, or undue influence.
If the parties are in agreement as to what they wish and intend to do, but there is a mistake in the preparation of the instrument, so that it fails correctly to embody their intention, equity will reform or rectify the instrument accordingly.97 And so a mistake in the words in the conveyance limiting the interest in the land which it was agreed should be conveyed may be corrected, as when there is an omission of words of inheritance.98 Likewise, the fact that the conveyance pur95-96. See Baum v. Lynn, 72 Miss. 932, 30 L. R. A. 441, 18 So. 428.
97. Ivinson v. Hutton, 98 U. S. 79, 25 L. Ed. 66; Brown v. Cranberry Iron & Coal Co., 84 Fed. 930, 28 C. C. A. 567; Allia T. Hall, 76 Conn. 322, 56 Atl. 637; Kerr v. Couper, 5 Del. Ch. 507; Gruing v. Richards, 23 Iowa, 288; Canedy v. Marcy, 13 Gray (Mass.) 373; Benson v. Markoe, 37 Minn. 30, 5 Am. St. Rep. 816, 33 N. W. 38; Sparks v. Pittman, 51 Miss. 511; Barataria Canning Co. v. Ott, 88 Miss. 771, 41 So 378; Leitensdorfer v. Delphy, 15 Mo. 160, 55 Am. Dec. 137; Grant v. Baird, 61 N. J. Eq. 389, 49 Atl150; Bank of Union v. Redwlne, 171 N. C. 559, 88 S. E. 878; Huss v. Morris, 63 Pa. 367; Melott v. West, 76 W. Va. 739, 86 S, E. 759.
98. Chamberlain v. Thompson, 10 Conn. 243, 26 Am. Dec. 390; Kyner v. Boll, 182 111. 171, 54 N. E. 925; Drum v. Drum, 251 111. 232, 95 N.e. 1071; Whittaker v. Lewis, 264 Mo. 208, 174 S. W. 369; Mcmillan v. Fish, 29 N. J. Eq. 610; Higinbotham v. Burnet, 5 Johns Ch. (N..Y.) 184; Henley v. Wilson, 77 N. C. 216; Clayton v. Freet, 10 Ohio St. 544; Brock v. O'dell, 44 S. C. 22, 21 S. E. 976; Lardner v. Williams, 98 Wis. 514, 74 N. W. 346.
Ports to convey land other than that which both parties intended should be conveyed, or that the land as conveyed differs from that sold, is ground for reformation."
Occasionally it is stated that, in order to justify the reformation of an instrument as not correctly expressing the agreement of the parties, there must have been a mutual mistake in the preparation of the instrument.1 This, however, appears questionable. If the instrument fails correctly to express the agreement of the parties, there should be a right to have it reformed, regardless of the person or persons whose mistake caused this result.2
If the instrument as executed expresses the agreement of the parties, it is no ground for reformation that in arriving at such agreement both parties labored under the same misconception.3 Nor will the instru99. Tillis v. Smith, 108 Ala. 264, 19 So. 374; Felton v. Leigh, 48 Ark. 498, 3 S. W. 638; Stevens v. Holman, 112 Cal. 345, 53 Am. St. Rep. 216, 44 Pac. 670; Bartt v. Deuel, 11 Colo. 494, 19 Pac. 471; Barnes v. Peterson, 136 Ga. 364, 71 S. E. 163; Keeley v. Sayles, 217 111. 589, 75 N. E. 567; Baker v. Pyatt, 108 Ind. 61, 9 N. E. 112; Bottorff v. Lewis, 121 Iowa, 27, 95 N. W. 262; Critch-field v. Kline, 39 Kan. 721, 18 Pac. 898; Holbrook v. Schofield, 211 Mass. 234, 98 N. E. 97; Fisher v. Dent, 259 Mo. 86, 167 S. W. 997; Blair v. Mcdonnell, 5 N. J. Eq. 327; Bush v. Hicks, 60 N. Y. 298; Pelletier v. Interstate Cooperage Co., 158 N. C. 403, 74 S. E. 112; Carroll v. Ryder, 34 R. I. 383, 83 Atl. 845; Walker v. Dunlop, 5 Hayw. (Tenn.) 271, 9 Am. Dec. 787; Abbott v. Flint's Adm'r, 78 Vt.
274, 62 Atl. 721; Carlson, v. Druse, 79 Wash. 542, 140 Pac. 570; Baxter v. Tanner, 35 W. Va. 60, 12 S. E. 1094; Fuchs v. Treat, 41 Wis. 404.
1. Chapman v. Lambert, 176 Ind. 461, 96 N. E. 459; Dougherty v. Dougherty, 204 Mo. 228, 102 S. W. 1099; Robinson v. Korns, 250 Mo. 663, 157 S. W. 790; Welles v. Yates, 44 N. Y. 525; Waslee v. Rossman, 231 Pa. 219, 80 Atl. 643; R. M. Cobban Realty Co. v. Chicago, M. & St. P. R. Co., 52 Mont. 256; 157 Pac. 173; 6 Pomeroy Eq. Jur. Sec. 675.
2. See 11 Columbia Law Rev. at p. 301, article by Roland R. Foulke, Esq.
3. Holland Blow Stave Co. v. Barclay, 193 Ala. 200, 69 So. 118: Toops v. Snyder, 70 Ind. 554; Wise v. Brooks, 69 Miss. 891, 13 So. 836; Pittsburg Lumber ment be reformed, if made on a valuable consideration, merely because it fails to accord with the intention or expectation of one party, provided it accords with the intention of the other, and with the terms of the agreement between them.4
The fact that the failure of the instrument as written to embody the intention of the parties arises from a mistake of law, as distinguished from a mistake of fact, does not prevent a reformation of the instrument to accord with the true intention of the parties.5 But on the other hand, if the parties, by reason of a mistake of law, deliberately select a particular form of instrument, or deliberately insert particular language therein, neither of them can afterwards assert that the instrument as executed does not represent their agreement.6 In other words, if the conveyance is in the form agreed on, the fact that, had the parties understood the law, a different form would have been agreed on, is not ground for reformation, while if the form of conveyance was not agreed on, but merely the end to be attained by the conveyance, the fact that this end is, by reason of a mistake of law, not attained by the conveyance actually executed, may be ground for reformation.
Such a mistake on his part, not induced by the donee.11 That a gift is not ordinarily revocable is generally recognized, and yet in but few cases, presumably, could the donor seeking to revoke not assert that he made the gift under a mistaken impression, as regards the merits of the donee, for instance, or his own ability to dispense with the subject of the gift.
Co. v. Shell, 133 Tenn. 466, 189 S. W. 879.
4. James Holcombe & Rainwater v. Furr, 126 Ark. 251, 190 S. W. 444; Ruby v. Ewing, 49 Ind. App. 520, 97 N. E. 798; Allen v. Roanoke R. & Lumber Co., 171 N. C. 339, 88 S. E. 492; R D. Johnson Milling Co. v. Read, 76 W. Va 557, 85 S. E. 726. | <urn:uuid:51826a3b-c272-43c7-a0f2-b82bf1fd364f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chestofbooks.com/real-estate/Real-Property-Interests-Law/Sec-439-Reality-of-consent-Mistake.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.87683 | 1,908 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Prof Stephen Belcher is chief scientist at the UK Met Office; Dr Olivier Boucher is head of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) Climate Modelling Centre; and Prof Rowan Sutton is director of climate research at the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of Reading.
The first results from a new generation of global climate models, which are valuable tools for understanding climate change, are now becoming available from climate research centres around the world.
These new climate models make maximum use of advances in technology – such as increased supercomputing power – and feature many improvements in their treatment of Earth’s climate system. These include better representation of the weather systems that bring us wind and rain, the clouds within those weather systems, and aerosols – the myriad of small particles in the atmosphere that come from natural sources and human activities.
An unprecedented amount of information is available from the new models about the changing character of weather processes in a changing climate, which is important for understanding our exposure to climate hazards and how to make society more resilient to climate change.
Many of the new models from centres around the world have been recently finalised, with others due to be completed over the coming weeks. They will be included in the next international comparison of climate models, known as the sixth “Coupled Model Intercomparison Project” (CMIP6). This will provide the foundation of climate model information for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6) – which is due to be published in 2021.
From an international policy perspective, an important function of climate models is to provide evidence for estimates of the permissible global greenhouse gas emissions available to stay within a given level of global warming. This is known as a global “carbon budget” and varies in size according to the temperature goal in question and the defined likelihood of staying below these thresholds.
The climate agreement signed by governments in Paris in 2015 aims to keep global temperature rise this century to “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5C.
A key factor in determining carbon budgets is how sensitive the Earth’s climate system is to increases in CO2. One measure of the long-term response of the climate over hundreds of years is known as the “equilibrium climate sensitivity” (ECS), which is defined as the temperature increase when CO2 has doubled and the climate system has come into equilibrium. The higher the ECS is, the smaller the remaining carbon budget has to be to meet a particular climate target.
Early results suggest ECS values from some of the new CMIP6 climate models are higher than previous estimates, with early numbers being reported between 2.8C (pdf) and 5.8C. This compares with the previous coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP5), which reported values between 2.1C to 4.7C. The IPCC’s fifth assessment report (AR5) assessed ECS to be “likely” in the range 1.5C to 4.5C and “very unlikely” greater than 6C. (These terms are defined using the IPCC methodology.)
The chart below shows how the early estimates from the CMIP6 models (red bar) compare with the CMIP5 models (yellow) and the assessment of ECS range from AR5 (blue). It should be noted that the CMIP6 range is preliminary and could change as more modelling centres publish their results.Assessment range for ECS from IPCC AR5 (blue bar; thick bar denotes likely range, thin bar extending from it shows values below which ECS is “extremely unlikely” and above which ECS is “very unlikely”), range from CMIP5 (orange bar) and preliminary estimates of ECS values from new global climate models (red bar).
The IPCC estimates its assessed range of ECS through multiple lines of evidence, including the following:
- Global climate models, which are powerful tools for understanding the effect of greenhouse gases on climate;
- Simple models constrained by observed changes in the instrumental record (since 1850);
- Using estimates of past climate going back thousands of years, which are inferred from proxy measures, such as ice cores and tree rings, combined with simple models;
- New techniques to study and quantify climate processes, such as the interactions between clouds and radiation
For AR5, simple models constrained by observed changes in the instrumental record tended to give values of ECS generally in the lower part of the likely range of 1.5 to 4.5C, whereas global climate models tended to give ECS in the upper part of the likely range.
Climate scientists will need to assess how new understanding of ECS from the various lines of evidence compares. They will all be considered by the IPCC for AR6 due in 2021.
The chart below shows an assessment of climate sensitivity estimates published since the year 2000. Each dot shows the best estimate of ECS from an individual study, while the bars show the range of possible values found by that study. The colour indicates the type of study. The black bar on the right-hand end shows how the early CMIP6 estimates compare.Updated compilation of climate sensitivity studies featured in the Carbon Brief climate sensitivity explainer, adapted from Knutti et al 2017. Bar on the far right shows the range of preliminary estimates of ECS values from the new global climate models.
The next step is for climate scientists to understand in detail why some of the new models are showing this shift in ECS – and how this fits with other lines of evidence. This includes looking at other measures of sensitivity, including “transient climate response” (TCR), which measures the rate of warming.
TCR is defined as the temperature increase at the instant that atmospheric CO2 has doubled, following an increase of 1% each year. This measure is arguably more useful for looking at changes we might expect over the current century, as it deals with shorter timescales than ECS.
The international community of scientists working on this new generation of climate models meets together for the first time next week from 25-28 March in Barcelona at the CMIP6 model analysis workshop. This has been organised under the auspices of the United Nations World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). It is an exciting opportunity for modelling centres to compare notes about the performance of their models and for the community to start thinking about the implications of this new rich seam of information for climate policy, including causes of past climate change and projections of likely future rates of change.
If it turns out that there is enough evidence to corroborate the higher ECS values from new-generation climate models then there would be important implications for carbon budgets. A higher ECS means a greater likelihood of reaching higher levels of global warming – even with deeper emissions cuts. Higher warming would allow less time to adapt and mean a greater likelihood of passing climate “tipping points” – such as thawing of permafrost, which would further accelerate warming.
The exact implications will only become clear once more analysis work is done using the latest generation climate models. In the meantime, the IPCC’s special report on 1.5C, published last year, remains the most up-to-date and robust assessment of the carbon budgets needed to meet the Paris goals.
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Barry D. Watts is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, "where he concentrates on net assessments, airpower and the emergence of guided munitions, transformation, and the military use of space." He is the author of "The Military Use of Space: A Diagnostic Assessment" (2001); "Meeting the Anti-Access and Anti-Access Challenge" (2003) with Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Work; and "Long Range Strike: Imperatives, Urgency and Operations" (2005) published by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
- Watts is a "former director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center and now the director of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Program Analysis and Evaluation. [He] has written an assessment of military competition in near-earth space and how that competition may evolve over the next twenty-five years. Aside from the importance of its subject, [Watt's] book is of particular interest because it explicitly attempts a "net assessment." Watts worked for Andrew Marshall, director of the OSD Office of Net Assessment (ONA) from its establishment in 1973."
Watts took office in May 2001 as Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
"Prior to his new position, Watts had been the director of the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center in Arlington, Va., his employer since 1986. His duties included analysis of military capabilities, strategy and operational doctrine. From 1991 to 1993, he headed the Gulf War Air Power Survey's work on operations and effectiveness.
"Previously, Watts served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 1986. His military career included an F-4 combat tour in Southeast Asia with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, subsequent assignments in Japan and Okinawa as an F-4 Wild Weasel aircraft commander, and an instructional assignment, teaching philosophy and mathematical logic, at the U.S. Air Force Academy. During his military career, he also served in the Office of Net Assessment, working on Korean and NATO-Warsaw Pact balance assessments, and in the Air Staff's Project Checkmate as a Soviet threat specialist.
"Watts' published writings span such topics as air-to-air combat tactics, measures of effectiveness, and coalition air power in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, among other subjects. He recently completed an assessment of military competition in near-earth space for the Center for Budgetary and Strategic Assessments (February 2001).
"The new director is a 1965 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a bachelor's degree in mathematics; he also holds a master's in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh (1974).
"The Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation advises the secretary and deputy secretary of Defense about the relationship of defense programs and budgets to U.S. defense objectives, projected threats, allied contributions, estimated costs and resource constraints."
In 1984, Lt. Col. Barry D. Watts was "Red Team Chief for Project Checkmate at Headquarters USAF."
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- Lt. Col. Barry D. Watts and Maj. James O. Hale, [http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1984/sep-oct/watts.html "Doctrine: Mere Words, or a Key to War-Fighting Competence?"] Air University Review, September/October 1984. | <urn:uuid:beda608b-49f2-49f7-a38d-c6e03f258639> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mail.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barry_Watts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950225 | 791 | 1.5 | 2 |
After it was discovered that fitness trackers and other electronic devices can provide the user’s GPS coordinates to social media, the Pentagon made some revisions to their rules. Now, the higher-ups in the military will make the decision on whether or not their troops can use the GPS function on their devices based on the security threat in their area at that time. “These geolocation capabilities can expose personal information, locations, routines, and numbers of DOD personnel, and potentially create unintended security consequences and increased risk to the joint force and mission,” the memo stated. Strava created a Global Heat Map to register the locations of the users of their fitness application. The map was spread out from 2015 to September of 2017 and showed small pockets of service activity in militarized areas such as Syria and Iraq. In addition to these restrictions, the Pentagon will be providing extensive cyber- security training to DOD employees and other staff to help them better understand the risks these fitness trackers could pose to them.
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The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee has decided to award 2019-2020 Outstanding Physics Senior Award to three graduating students: Jacob Adamczyk, Niksa Praljak, and Samantha Tietjen. They have been selected for this award from a record strong class of 14 physics majors - many truly exceptional BA, BS, BS Honors students. The award honors recipients' outstanding academics, significant research achievements presented both at CSU and nationally, and tangible service contributions to the department, SPS, and physics outreach to general public.
The award includes:
- The name of the recipient to be engraved on the Department of Physics Outstanding Physics Senior Plaque for permanent display at the Physics Office.
- A personal plaque recording the achievement.
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set, The New Millennium Edition.
Sincere congratulations to Jacob, Niksa, and Sam! And good luck in their future endeavors!
I would like to personally thank each of them for their hard work and perseverance in academics, drive and curiosity for research challenges, and selfless commitment to the physics community through SPS, physics teaching on campus, and science/physics outreach on and off campus.
Please see the information below that highlights some of the achievements by Jacob, Niksa, and Sam:
Jacob Adamczyk is graduating from CSU with a BS Physics Honors and a BS Math and as Summa Cum Laude. He did research projects with Dr. Kaufman, Dr. Heus, Dr. Streletzky (as part of CSU’s REU), and Dr. Winkelmann (Neel Institute, Grenoble, France). He presented his research at the OSAPS at Kettering, at the APS March Meeting in Boston, and gave an SPS talk at CSU. He also served as SPS Fabulous Physics question creator, helped with Physics Olympics, and was a sole author of the questions for the Physics Jeopardy in the Spring 2019. He won the 2019 SPS Leadership Fellowship from the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
Niksa Praljak is completing degrees in BS Physics Honors and BS Math Honors and is expected to graduate CSU in Spring 2020 as Summa Cum Laude. He performed research with Dr. Resnick (as part of CSU’s REU), Dr. Ryan, and Dr. Hinczewski (CWRU). Niksa presented his research at the OSAPS at Kettering, at the APS March Meeting in Boston, and to SPS at CSU. His research was published in 2 peer-reviewed journals. Niksa won the prestigious 2019-2020 NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program award. Furthermore, he helped the SPS physics outreach effort at Campus International School and served as the SPS-Math Club liaison, organizing SPS seminars and Physics Olympics. Finally, Niksa was chosen as the Spring 2020 COSHP Valedictorian. After graduation, he will begin his Ph.D. studies in Biophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago.
Samantha Tietjen is graduating from CSU with a BS Honors in Physics as Cum Laude. She did her research with Dr. Fodor and Dr. Streletzky (one year as a part of CSU’s REU). She presented her research at the OSAPS at Toledo, at the two APS March Meetings in Boston and LA, at the PhysCon2020 in Providence, and several times to SPS at CSU. Sam is currently the SPS chapter president and is involved in all SPS activities. She was the leader of the SPS outreach team for 2 years, and led the team to winning two Marsh White Awards from the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Sam won 2019 SPS Leadership Fellowship from AIP. She has also been teaching undergraduate physics labs and has become one of the key TAs for the department. Sam has already been admitted into 4+1 BS/MS Physics program at CSU.
Please join me in congratulating Jacob, Niksa, and Samantha.
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george mackay brown s short history andrina
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George The company Brown’s short story ‘Andrina’ has an component of mystery which leaves someone in wonder and makes ‘Andrina’ an extremely pleasant read. Andrina is an old sailor’s granddaughter who sessions him as a ghost when he dies: nevertheless he will not know she actually is his granddaughter or that she is a ghost and is dreadfully raise red flags to when the girl leaves him. I think exactly why George It Brown is really successful in making the story a pleasurable read is due to the sophisticated structure from the story, the setting and in addition its links to a magical fairytale.
The story of ‘Andrina’ includes a very interesting framework of a tale inside a account. The outer tale is in the present tense and concerns the sailor in the daily routine. The lining story is in the past and tells of the sailor when he was youthful and of a love affair that he had. This structure the actual story challenging as you at first will not know who also the characters in the inside story are and thus it has a great impression of unknown surrounding that.
Another interesting feature from the structure is the fact that it is cyclical in that it relates to the times of year. The story clears in the winter in which the sailor is definitely ill and feeling that he offers lost his good friend and helper Andrina. It progresses in the interior story, the place that the sailor speaks of his romance with Andrina’s grandmother. The summertime conveyed joy and helped give the impression that they were deeply in love. His passion affair ended in the slide when wildlife died out and the sailor learned a terrible key about Andrina’s grandmother then left this island then. When planting season returned in the outer account the sailor man discovered Andrina was a ghost and so why she got left. This kind of let him figure out and offered him the sensation of wish to move on. This kind of structure can be used to represent the inner feelings of the sailor and in my own view is beneficial.
As well as the cyclical structure, the earth’s factors are also known throughout the tale. This reflects on the sailor’s old days and he often tells someone of remembrances and links to the sea. One example with this is at the opening of the story when the sailor is definitely describing Andrina ” ‘She lights my own lamp, pieces the peat moss fire within a blaze, views that there is enough water in my bucket that stands on the wall market. ‘ In this article the peat links towards the element of globe and flames and water are also described.
This helps the reader relate to where the seaman were living, in George Mackay Brown’s homeland of Orkney. The land here is windswept and the descriptions in the elements help the reader connect with how simple it is. The storyline could not have worked in any other setting. An additional interesting reason for this estimate is the explanation of Andrina in that the girl ‘lights my personal lamp’. This is certainly symbolic and shows how she provided the old sailor man light and hope and also comforted him. She is known with this symbolisation throughout the story, which provides her the of a kind, angelic figure. In the third paragraph she actually is also explained with ‘I expected her with the initially cluster of shadows¦’ which has alliteration from the soft ‘s’ sound. This provides you with the reader the impression she’s sweet and innocent.
George Mackay Dark brown literary skills are excellent in creating the proper atmospheres to portray different situations. Once Andrina did not come this individual used brief sharp sentences to convey how shocked and distraught he was ” ‘She did not come’ followed within the next paragraph by simply ‘She did not come again¦’ The repeating here shows how he was lamenting his loss and wondering why she may not came. In another portion of the story, the sailor a new bad dream where he experienced flashbacks to previous situations in his existence. Here the author used short and extended sentences to convey to the reader the fear that he was dealing with. This technique also highlighted phrases such as ‘It was a dark night. ‘ which built the ordeal seem more dark and terrifying.
The storyline of ‘Andrina’, and especially the storyplot inside ‘Andrina’, has many comparisons to a fairytale, which will help give it some mystery. They have the classic key theme of like and the suitable setting of summertime. Not simply is the language archaic, nonetheless it is also very simple, like in a fairytale, such as ‘¦but on a single particular day in early summer this son from one croft and this lady from one more distant croft looked at one another with different eye. ‘ The sentence structure really is easy which makes it easy for every target audience to understand.
The ‘tremendous risky secret thing’ that the young lady had to inform the young man also fortifies the secret theme while the reader is, at first, left wondering what. The language with this section is very poetic, with lines such as ‘¦lingering improvement of twilight¦’ This gives you the impression the situation was perfect plus they were equally very happy. In this section the reflection with the sea double, an example of this kind of being ‘Far in the north-east the spring suspensions of day time were beginning surge up. ‘ This kind of quotation invokes two images, one of the two peoples’ appreciate growing stronger and secondly of the ocean surging and crashing about.
The mixture of setting, structure and atmosphere make ‘Andrina’ an excellent read. The story could not have taken put in place anywhere besides Orkney as well as the windswept anxiety gives the story an eerie atmosphere. George Mackay Brownish has the ability to position the story together and associated with reader wonder afterwards about what basically happened to Andrina. Problem of whether Andrina was genuine or whether she was just a figment of the sailors’ imagination is left pertaining to the reader to interpret in their own approach, which means the storyline has a long lasting effect for anyone. | <urn:uuid:694a8b8b-681e-4110-bdeb-76cc7e834b30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mmsoftek.com/george-mackay-brown-s-short-history-andrina/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970142 | 1,345 | 2.125 | 2 |
My guest today says she was the least likely candidate to be a ballerina, ever. Mary McKendry was one of eight kids growing up rough and tumble in the Queensland country town of Rockhampton. There in a little timber hall with cattle trains rolling by outside, Mary discovered a talent for dance. That talent and an enormous amount of hard work and family support took her to the Royal Ballet School in London when she was just 16, then on to becoming principal dancer with the London Festival Ballet and the Houston Ballet. It was in Houston that Mary fell in love with her dancing partner, Li Cunxin. The world got to know Li’s remarkable story from his biography, Mao's Last Dancer, which was turned into a feature film showing his journey from a poor kid in rural China to defecting to the USA and becoming an internationally celebrated dancer in Houston. Mary and Li married and had their first child, a beautiful daughter named Sophie. Everything seemed perfect, but when Sophie was six months old, their lives turned upside down.
Sarah: Hi, Mary.
Sarah: Take me back to Rocky, where you grew up. Your dad was an architect. What kind of house did he built for the family?
Mary: Oh, the house was ingenious because he adored children.
I think even would have gone on to have more, but I think Coralie was like, I've definitely had enough. We had dormitories with little gaps underneath and no doors so no one could slam their fingers. There was only a door on the toilet and the bathroom door. Otherwise it was all open and there was a little gap at the top and a little gap at the bottom and louvres so that we were always catching a breeze.
Sarah: You must not have had much privacy then…
Mary: There's no doors and no privacy. No one had a towel. Or Pass Me a Towel! And there might be one left on the floor. You know, if there was a toothbrush there, you just grabbed it. And lucky if you got a towel or pass, me a towel! Coralie was very gentle and she was not military. She wanted beautiful things. But it was difficult with that many children. Often on a Saturday, I'd feel a bit sorry for her and I'd go and make the beds, and then the boys would come and run all over them themselves. We were defeated.
Sarah: How many boys and how many girls?
Mary: Five boys. Three girls.
Sarah: What were mealtimes like at your place?
Mary: Actually, quite ordered. Coralie was always produced a beautiful meal and we were served tallest to smallest, except when one time the youngest said, you know, the only thing I want for my birthday is to be first in line for the pork crackling!
Sarah: Oh, he always missed out because he was the smallest! Your mum would be there serving you one by one down the line.
Mary: That's right.
Sarah: Would she sit down and join you?
Mary: She had a rocking chair and she'd have a claret and she'd sit there and wait for Neil and he would walk in and go, ‘Splendid Children’! because we were all sitting down at dinner. And he always said, splendid children because the meal was over. We all thought we were splendid as well. And we had benches, not chairs, so we could not swing back and fall over. And a countertop separated us from the table. So the children were separated when they were served their meals. So that was all from dad, and mum had like an eight burner stove.
Sarah: In all that hubbub, Mary, did she sometimes forget to make everyone school lunches?
Mary: Often, often. And we'd be so excited because we'd think all maybe she's going to go to the fish and chip shop and get us fish and chips. And then sometimes she'd just forget completely. We thought, oh, no, we’d have to go up to the nuns and tell them we didn't have lunch and we were so embarrassed for Mum because she was such an angel. And then they give us sort of dreadful green milk.
Sarah: Green milk?
Mary: Yes, it was like a lime coloring.
Sarah: What kind of car did your parents drive you all about it in the early days?
Mary: In the early days, Mum had a blue Hillman. And I remember because Dad I think was running for Parliament and we had to run around and give out all the brochures and then Dad took out the back seat so we could all we could fit five standing in the back and Gerry always could sit in the front and hold one of the babies. And that meant until finally he I think we had a Valiant or something in four or five could lie in the back. But then he got the first dry cleaning van and fitted it out for us all to sit in it…
Sarah: As the McKendrey clan bus?
Mary: And we went all over Australia. We drove all the way down to Sydney and that we'd head off at three o'clock in the morning. The first stop was four hours later for a barbecue, which was in the back of the van as well. And yeah, we thought that was great. We could pass the babies from one to the other. No seatbelts.
Sarah: I'm glad you made it at home.
Mary: We did.
Sarah: One night, your mum was all dressed up to go out to the Catholic Ball. What happened when you kids got on the trampoline?
Mary: It wasn't one of those large trampolines and was just small. And there were accidents always happening. I did break my wrist when I went through the corner once. But Paddy, who he will say today he was just accident prone because he was number seven, I suppose we weren't really looking out for him and he wasn't that tiny... he fell on the trampoline and the kids screamed and mum was in a beautiful angel like dress. And we thought she looked amazing. And there was blood pouring everywhere. And he lost his six front teeth from that trampoline. We were often at the hospital with a broken arm or split lip or standing on a nail, tetanus and then dad would say one go, seven go. All of you, off you go.
Sarah: What about Paddy's altar serving outfit, what happened to that?
Mary: Oh, well, he apparently got caught, you know, a candle wax on the bottom of the altar at the altar boy. And Dom was with him in his costume is like Paddy knocked that out, knock that out!
Sarah: Your dress is on fire. Your dress is on fire!
Mary: Church was always a comedy, actually, and it was just who could? Because we used to have this song called Embarrassed, Sir, we'd say embarrassed and we'd start singing under our breath of one of the children had embarrassed the family and then we'd insult them even more, you know.
Sarah: How did you come to start ballet lessons in the midst of all that, Mary?
Mary: Well, through a friend of my mum's, a girl I went to the local Catholic school with suggested and she was very beautiful and angelic. This girl like looking like a little ballerina with long blond hair. And she suggested to mum that she was taking her to ballet, and would I like to go with as well? And I was eight and Mum thought that would be great, her out on a Saturday morning and maybe she'd learn a bit of grace or something, not football. And, you know, because I could be running, Dad had sort of the ripple roof as well. And we could run from the top of the stairs, down the ripple, the aluminium roof and jump from that onto the trampoline.
Sarah: My goodness. No wonder you were ending up in hospital.
Mary: Yeah, it was. Yeah, pretty wild, so I think Mum was hoping that it would help so then she picked me up on that Saturday morning and I went to my first ballet class and I had my big, heavy, wild hair and mum bought me some black ballet shoes because that's all you could get in Rockhampton. I turned up and all the little girls there were like five and six. And I was like eight, eight and a half. And they all had their white dresses and pink sashes and pink ballet shoes. So this was not going well to start with. But I didn't care. And, you know, I jumped in the air to some music and I just thought, oh, this is it.
Sarah: So all that running around and jumping with your brothers actually stood you in good stead for ballet?
Mary: Well, I think there's a misconception about ballerina being soft and sweet and all that. In fact, you need to be incredibly strong physically to survive it as a career. And I had all of that from running, swimming, but cycling to and from school, walking to and from school, you know, all of that.
Sarah: What was your teacher like in Rockhampton?
Mary: Oh, so prim and proper. She did walk down the back of us on the bar and often sat in the chair, mostly sat in the chair. She had a beautiful, often pastel beautiful pastel dresses, stockings and soft shoes, beautiful black hair, white skin like the typical ballerina. But the knowledge that she I don't know how she you know, she got these amazing reel to reel tapes. We did Oliver. We did Mame. We did Jungle Drums. We did Scottish dancing. Irish dancing. Someone said the other day which one of us did the Latvian dance? And someone said, Oh, I did. I mean, we did the Norwegian. You know, we didn't even know where Norway was! And then we did a Polish group and she invented all these things and then found music on reel to reel tapes, which I think her mother must have helped. Her mother was English, so they must have come out and stopped on the ships when they came down. And so she was very English.
Sarah: Did she see something in you early on?
Mary: She definitely saw that I was wild and that that was. But she saw I had there's a thing in dance called elevation and it's quite rare, particularly in girls. So when you see someone with that amazing elevation and what is known as a jump, so naturally for me, I could just spring and it's sort of you, you can teach it, but you need to have a certain body type instead of strength and certain musicality. It's unusual, you know, you don't get them everywhere. And certain ballets require that that. And she could see that. But she could see a lot of other problems at the same time. But she pushed me forward very quickly. And then when I was 15, she talked to my parents about me going to London and the Royal Ballet School. I don't think my mother was surprised. My mother could see I had talent because she was a pianist, not a professional pianist. But she went up to her letters and music so she could see I was musical. She could see I had some kind of stage presence. They thought, well, that wasn't a bad idea. I mean, I could go if it didn't work, I could come back.
Sarah: Before you got to that stage as you started becoming more serious with your dance training, who took you to class in the morning?
Mary: Oh, my father. He would come and wake me up because Dad couldn't wait to get out of the house because otherwise he’d have the school, and the breakfast. You know, and I often had the 40 pieces of toast (to make) so I was grateful to go to ballet as well. Someone would have the eggbeater with the, you know, the silver spoon with the Milo and then mum would do bacon and eggs. And then you go and try to find your underpants or your socks in the laundry. Our laundry room was as big as the kitchen. You know, at nine, I think I was ironing some of the boy’s shirts, so Dad would wake me up.
Sarah: Would you have breakfast together then?
Mary: Dad would either cook me a little steak or a lamb chop or a piece of fish. Yeah, lovely.
Sarah: Was that because you were using all that energy dancing?
Mary: No, I just think that's what Dad did.
Mary: He didn't really ask questions. He just he was just there and kind and lovely. And often he would pick us up from ballet. And Miss Hanson had a terrible habit of keeping us all an hour late and all the parents would be steaming outside, and dad would be there. So quite happy to have peace and time to think about his architecture or whatever. And we get in the car and we go, Hello, beautiful girls! And the girls would be so excited that it was Neil because they knew that he would stop and give them a Coke on the way home.
Sarah: When you started competing as a dancer, Mary, how nervous did your mum get watching you in those competitions?
Mary: Oh, early on, I'm not sure she ever expected anything. It wasn't too bad. But she was she was just the most hopeless sort of stage mother. She couldn't do my hair, so I banned her already. I mean, she couldn't do my hair at home, let alone for a ballet stage. So I sent her out and then my little sisters started as well. And I was like, oh, I'll take over that. So she was just nervy, I think, from the very first ballet exam because she'd take me to her hairdresser, to have my hair done for the exam. And I walked in. It was all bouffant now and they all had it down.
Sarah: Even I know you're not meant to do that for ballet.
Mary: It was a beehive, yeah, terrible. So I knew she just wasn't good and she was, you know, she was quite, you know, very gentle and it was like hopeless. Get out of my way. Yeah. So she stayed very far in in the front.
Sarah: As you say it, at just 16, you were accepted into this very prestigious Royal Ballet School and you flew off from Rockhampton to London. Who came to see you off at the airport?
Sarah: that was a very sad day because all the children were in line. Again, I think we just naturally fell into line. One of us were leaving, but also our friends, the Agnew's, they still remember that day as well. And they were lined up behind because everyone we always assumed everyone had six and seven children because you'd have Christmas Day and there'd be seventeen sitting around, you know, which we thought was normal. So everybody remembers that day. And, you know, particularly, Dom, because I was like his mother. I remember very sadly and I, I yeah, I was sad as well. So Dad stayed with the children and Mum took me to Brisbane. I had to do my final exam and then dad met us there. And then all the children were billeted out to different families to two per family.
Sarah: And you set off for London. Did you feel ready for that next step?
Mary: I couldn't wait. I absolutely couldn't wait. I didn't know what it was. And I don't think London was prepared for me. The Colonial. I didn't think we were colonials. But, you know, now when I think about it, my God, you know, from Rockhampton, really.
Sarah: After two years at the at the Royal Ballet School, you're invited to join the London Festival Ballet where Rudolf Nureyev was guest star and choreographer. What was it like watching him work?
Mary: I wasn't really invited, I think I really crashed into it because I didn't audition because the Royal Ballet School, they were very they you know, they looked after certain few. But colonials really, they weren't really important. I found out that there was an audition going on and from a girl from the Royal Ballet School because they seemed to know something, I said, well, I'm going to that as well. So I went to that and I didn't get into that audition but want the ballet mistress remembered me from a performance that I school performance I did at Covent Garden because I did one of the lead character girls. And so in February, when Rudolph was creating his first Romeo and Juliet, they needed more dancers. So she called me my flatmates and they went, Mary, they want you to go in. So I was like, yes! And so I went in to the studio and then Rudolf walked across the studio. And then I did a class every day for a week and they gave me a job at the end of that. And that was the Romeo and Juliet. And I was in that from the beginning. And it was an amazing experience. He was incredible. And that's the standard he set for us, was just like …and of course, we thought that was natural. We thought everybody had Romeo and Juliet and we had Georgiadis costumes. He took us to Australia. He took us to the Met. We had 19 curtain calls and he took us to France for five weeks. Paris. So this all by osmosis. So Rudolph knew me by name. He was sort of in and out with us really for the next ten years. In class every day.
Sarah: What about nightclubs? After you'd come off stage and some of those places, where did he take you?
Mary: Oh, in New York. He took us to Studio 54. I mean, as you do. And what was that like? Oh, incredible and great. Because we had heard of Studio 54.
Sarah: How does ballet dancing translate to disco dancing? We or lighting up the floor?
Mary: Yeah, it definitely, it’s easy.
Sarah: I think you were just 23 when you were cast as a lead in in Swan Lake Mary. What was going through your head like when you were there in the wings waiting to go on, on opening night?
Mary: That that ballet's fairly terrifying on any level and it was a Saturday night so it was a big deal. I had a beautiful partner, in fact, Australian dancer. His name was Jonathan Kelly, and he was very experienced and I was very inexperienced, so. Look, sometimes it's a blessing to be 23 because you actually really don't know that much, you think you do, but you actually don't. So that's how I got through the ballet and they were very proud of me. And my director was thrilled. And, you know, I'd just been made a principal and it was a big opportunity. So he obviously, again, saw something in me and gave me pathways to develop actually as a dramatic ballerina.
Sarah: Was that your particular strength?
Mary: Yes, absolutely. And I swear from singing in all those funerals every week in the Catholic school and Nearer my God to Thee. They were fantastic because everyone goes to drama classes. But I think we had it every week and bowing and kissing the Bishop's ring and all of that. That’s stage, isn’t it?
Sarah: Could your parents make that performance when you were the lead in Swan Lake?
Mary: They came back with John Field and they walked two flights of stairs to the dressing room and. Yeah, they were wonderful when they came.
Sarah: How did they fit into that ballet world?
Mary: My mother could fit in anywhere and my father didn’t really necessarily need to. He just loved the architecture and the beautiful pubs and going and talking politics to anyone that would listen. Because when my mother took me first to London, she was only 40 and she said on the plane, it was the first night’s sleep she'd ever had in her life. And Neil kept poking her, apparently to wake her up to go, oh, here we are. She's like, I don't care I need to sleep!
Sarah: Mary, how did you first encounter the dancer Li Cunxin?
Mary: We were in London. We were performing at the Coliseum at the time. And Ben Stevenson had come and done Cinderella on our company. And I loved him he was just magical to work with. Quite a genius, an English genius. And he was the director of Houston Ballet and their company was coming to London. And I was very interested in in seeing what his company was like. I snuck out in my lunch hour in a taxi because no one should see you doing that.
Sarah: It would seem to be a bit traitorous to your ballet...
Mary: Oh, yeah, you couldn't do that. You wouldn't tell anyone. So I got a little black cab out to the Coliseum to the south, as well and slinked into the seats and Lee was doing a performance up there. And because Ben knew who I was, I was he used me a lot and he was very interested in me. It was fine for me to go there because he kind of wanted me to go there. And then Li saw me in the audience and came down and sat next to me and I was trying to be incognito and hide. And he was chatting. And I was like, I don't, know you and I've got to get out of here. I've got to get back to work because I had rehearsals in the afternoon. And so that was the first. And he thought I was very snobbish and odd because he was trying to compliment me. He'd seen me perform the night before and that Ben was sort of going on about, you know, raving a little bit about this particular Australian dancer so that the dancers were very interested in me because he didn't usually do that.
So and then two years later, I had decided that I wanted to leave. I wanted to work with Ben Stevenson. And I thought at 27 I thought, I have to do it now or I'll never do it. So it was a big change and I received a Principal contract.
Sarah: So this is moving from London to Houston.
Mary: Yeah, I was twenty seven, just 27 and I got to Houston and Li was my partner and we were doing Swan Lake of the City Centre in New York and one of Ben's ballets called Peer Gynt. And it was just magical because it like having a partner and dance is the same as life. You know, it has to be they have to be the right maturity. They have to be the right work ethic. They have to be the right size. You can't be too sure, can't be too tall musically. They have to sort of feel at the same as you. So we really complemented each other. Li was very, very calm and I was not. So he found that interesting and I found that calming. That is good.
Sarah: And is that something, Mary, that you can kind of sense the first time you dance with someone? Or does it take time to work out?
Mary: You know it's immediate. Yeah, it's not it doesn't happen very often. I danced with Kelvin Coe here in Australia, just before he actually I think he'd retired and he came back and I literally just looked at Kelvin and we were a match made in heaven. And yeah, so and then there were a couple of others, a couple of Italians that I danced with as well, because often as you get to be a ballerina, you end up looking after the 21 year olds and growing them up, or you, the older ones end up looking after you. So it's not often you both sort of right at the same time on a trajectory for whatever reason.
Sarah: What ballet was it that changed the nature of your relationship with Li?
Mary: I think that originally one of the first one was, again, because I was Solveig and he was Peer. So we sort of had this romantic well, the relationship on stage was romantic and but no words were spoken. And there's a kiss at the in the end of the first act and then second act as he comes back to you. And it's very romantic.
And it's that Greig music the same and it's just stunning. In fact, we played that for Li’s fiftieth. We had an opera singer come down the stairs from our house in Melbourne singing that song, and he said, what is it? And I said, I'll just hang on two seconds and you'll recognize. And he did. So it's nice.
Sarah: How did he propose to you, Mary? Oh, it wasn't very romantic, actually. He was he was away in Pittsburgh and his parents had come from China. And I was looking after them. And I think he just sort of thought, if I don't grab hold of this girl, she could be gone because I was a free spirit and was not really looking to be married. And and I sort of think he he was a bit mousy, but he had the audacity to ask and I thought, well, this this is going to be interesting life, because I thought he was such an amazing, amazing man. And I mean, he'd only just learned English. So there was a lot, you know, because when I met him, he couldn't he he could read a little, but not not much. So I did teach him to read. And then, you know, he does have a serious brain, that man.
Sarah: Was the fact that he wasn't a Catholic an issue for your family?
Mary: not really, except that the one thing I wanted to do for my mother was to marry in a church. It seems silly now, but for me at the time, because she'd given me so much, it was really important to her and Li was like, that's fine. So he was baptized.
Sarah: So he converted?
Mary: Yep. Yep. Except that he had to have catechism lessons. And when he did ask about the Virgin Mary, the priest said, father said, I think you're ready.
Sarah: No questions. Let's just move this along. No questions. Mary, you and Li were married in Houston and not too much longer after Sophie came along. Who arrived to help you and Li look after her?
Mary: So I you know, I was desperate to go back to the stage. And I knew when I had a baby, you know, if I waited too long, you just can't you can't get your body back. So Li asked his parents if they would come and help look after Sophie. And I was so fine with that because I knew them, and they were beautiful.
Not as well as I knew them when when they left.
Sarah: So they lived in your house with you?
Mary: We had a little garage apartment the back, and they lived on that. And Li put up a little satellite TV because I didn't speak any English and they were amazing. And Sophia was their only little girl because they had seven boys and they were quite young, actually, under 60 and very fit. So, and they only had one child. So for them it was amusing, you know, it was wonderful. They loved it. And also they had had no time with their son because he left at 11. And so we'd go and stay, you know, but with always other children, so they had that opportunity to bond with him, which was really beautiful and really important for him as well. So he loved it and I loved it, too, because they didn't understand a word I said!
Sarah: The dream in-laws..
Mary: I mean, so I could have I can say anything. I wanted to leave the table. I had no idea what I said, which was amazing. And they did all the washing, all my washing. And even if I didn't like it, I was so grateful. And she was the most amazing.
Sarah: What sort of things did she make?
Mary: Well, just beautiful Chinese food, you know, a beautiful bean shoots and tofu and dumplings. And, you know, I mean, I couldn't eat that much, but it was just such good food, such good food. And I didn't have anything I had to worry about with Sophie. And I knew she was loved.
Sarah: You and Sophie and Li and Li's parents came on a visit to Australia. What happened that made Li in particular concerned about Sophie?
Mary: We'd finished our final performance and my family had been to see us and we performed at the Opera House in Sydney as well. It was a really joyful occasion. My family got to meet Sophie, which was beautiful, and she was an easy child. And when the children were out playing and Li came back quite concerned, saying that a balloon, a red balloon popped, I said, So what? And he said, well, all the children startled and Sophie didn't move. I said, so maybe she was, you know, looking at something else?
So I thought nothing of it, but something plagued him. And so when we went back to America, we went straight back to paediatrician and requested a hearing test and we had no idea what to expect, we thought. I don't know what we thought, really. I certainly didn't think that when the doctor came out and said, your daughter's profoundly deaf. That is one thing I did not expect. She was nearly 18 months. And you have to have an ABR where they knock you out. So you go to the hospital and they put you out under four to two hours and they knock those sounds in some way, just sitting in the booth waiting till she and she's lying there in front of us. I remember the outfit, a little blue denim outfit with flowers that Ben Stevenson, had bought her from Italy and little red Clark shoes and socks. And this guy that we didn't even know, a doctor, came through and said, oh, she's profoundly deaf. We just looked at our gorgeous little baby girl and went what? Li was trying to get up to say, well, what can we do? And I sort of knew, Helen Keller just appeared in my brain because that was the only thing I could…I hadn't met anyone else. There was nothing I didn't know any anyone. But I knew it was serious. So we took a home and realized that, you know, anything we’d said she hadn't heard a thing and she wasn't going to hear.
Sarah: Was she making any sounds?
Mary: you know, that I just I to deaf children do babble, but it's it's mimicking. So they and she was making ma ma ma …ga ga ga bah bah bah. All that stuff. Different syllables until a certain point they stop.
Sarah: Not long after you got that diagnosis, you only had to go on tour. What decision did you come to in a dressing room in Toronto?
Mary: Actually wasn't even in the dressing room. It was as I was going off stage, there's a group of us and we all collect each other on this last piece of music. And we walk forward and we slumped forward and we slumped back and we go round the corner and forward and it's a diagonal to the other end of the stage. And we follow the mother.
And I knew what I was going off while certainly the first things I thought was Sophie's never going to hear this music and how sad that was. And at that point, I just knew I would have to be what just became very clear that I would have to be her communicator and. I don't know what I thought, I just knew I had to be the one to communicate for her and to her. And so, you know, I sobbed and cried and then said to Li, I'll have to stop.
Sarah: Stop dancing?
Mary: Yeah. And be with her because it was another whole world, I had to get hearing aids, you have to get a mold, you have to have testing. You can't send an 18 month old in by themselves. You've got to do it all and you've got to be the one that speaks for her. And so I kept thinking, well, maybe it'll improve or maybe it'll, you know, Li thought maybe acupuncture could help. I mean, so many things went through. But underneath I knew I knew that it just had to be me.
Sarah: You started taking Sophie to a speech therapist straight off. What did they suggest around the languages that Sophie was hearing, the fact that at home there was English and Chinese?
Mary: They said very, very blatantly that two language households would not help Sophie. And with hearing aids, Sophie was really only lip reading so she could just barely detect the lower sounds like not not the s’s. The high frequency sound she couldn't hear at all.
Sarah: So how did that change things in your home?
Mary: Then we decided that Nanna and Yeye would have to go back to China and I would stop work and I had to be language happened in the household, so that wasn't going to work. So sadly, they went back.
Sarah: That must have been a heartbreaking thing for everybody.
Mary: It was heartbreaking. But at the same time, when I found out she was deaf, I was so grateful that they'd been there. And even though Sophie couldn't hear, she really has a very, very deep relationship with Nanna and Yeye. It's quite extraordinary, actually.
Sarah: When you put your mind back to that early months after her diagnosis, those first few years, what is it that you wanted for Sophie?
Mary: I wanted her to speak. I wanted to talk to, I wanted her to be like everybody else. And I wanted to speak to my family and Li's family, so, you know, my choice at the time was for her to learn to speak one language and then maybe she could translate it. And Li never gave up the dream that she could learn Chinese if the goal was to get her to speak.
Sarah: If the goal was to get her to speak how did you go about trying to make that happen in those early years?
Mary: I spoke all day, every day. As soon as we woke up, I put the hearing aids on. I put her in front of me and I talked about everything that we were doing from the moment we woke up until the moment we went to bed. And then often she put her hand over my mouth to say, stop. And then I would make her speak. And I'll take her out to a little coffee shop and I'd say, you know, if you want a Coke, you have to go in and ask. So I just I just I just forced her.
Sarah: What did that do to your relationship?
Mary: In a way, we were very we were very, very close. And but I always had to push her. And I think it made me teacher, not mother. And so the joy of I'm just mother now, which I love, but I because I wanted her to have the same opportunities as everybody else, and time was we always felt we were so far behind because everyone's people that can hear they're just moving forward, snowballing, and we were not snowballing anywhere. it was very slow and very arduous for her. And we both worked very hard. And I listened to everything she heard, everything. Everything she misheard, everything she said. I never let go actually.
Sarah: When she was four, she had surgery to have a cochlear implant. How new was that technology then?
Mary: Well, there was no research. There was no Google, there was no Internet. So you couldn't go. How is it going to work? And in fact, the information at the time was not positive. So they had done it on, you know, older people, but they hadn't done it on children. This was about 1992 when we had it or 1993. And that this therapist said to me that Sophie, even with the hearing aids and language, she will always be deaf in a hearing world. So what you're pushing for, it's not really going to change. But she said with the implant I think you'll get hearing and if you get the hearing you can get the language. And what frightened me was the operation because there was no way I could communicate that to Sophie. So you had to be even so, I'd put her in basically hospital for an operation. She hadn't came out with bandages and everything. We had no language to say, it's OK. So I just used the expressions on my face. And then when she was turned on for the first time, I didn't even know if she was hearing or not really, but then three weeks later, I started singing a little song and she picked up part of the song was like a light bulb moment. She can hear. But the thing is, hearing's not language.
So all the concepts what, where, when, why, it's overwhelming.
Sarah: The technology with the cochlear implant back then was cumbersome, you had a harness that she had to wear. Did she like having that off, having it away from her?
Mary: Oh, yeah. And she was loved swimming and everything was always off, but it was just never, never an option. And not only did she wear the harness, but I wore an FM at all times. So I had a microphone. So my mouth was literally by her ear so she wouldn't miss anything.
Sarah: Did you what did she ever rebel against that intensive training? She she did early, early on, aged three, three and four. A lot of head banging, a lot of sullen, three hour sulks and things like that. Look, it was it was just all difficult at about 8 years old. She was difficult and it was hard to tell with a deaf child because if they just pulled back and they weren't attending, were they sulking or were they just exhausted? Like when she first went to preschool, I would pick her up at lunchtime because she could barely get through the afternoon. But also, I felt my teaching was better than most people because I just did it with such an intensity because you couldn't just say a sentence and think she heard it. You had to make sure I could see in her eyes.
Sarah: I can't help but think about your own training as a dancer, Mary, with all of that effort and repetitive steps and pushing through pain, were you bringing that kind of focus and and intensity to trying to help Sophie speak?
Mary: I think, definitely I think that. That relentless pushing of her and often going to bed each night and going, oh, I haven't done enough today, I should have done more. I never really gave up. And sometimes I wish I was just a normal little, you know, a little house where we just have lunch and dinner and I can methodically go through. No, we were flying to China and flying to Australia. And, you know, he was off on the stage and we were just a not a normal family. But in the end introducing her to all those activities built language. So it was amazing. But it just took a long time.
Sarah: Li was offered a position with the Australian Ballet and you all moved to Australia, to Melbourne. How was school for her in Australia?
Mary: Look, in the early years. It wasn't too bad, actually. It was fine. She had lots of little friends. And of course, when they were little, they played so there wasn't a lot of language, but once language happens and they start telling secrets and and of course, she can't hear or anything that happens in a circle because the conversation moves around.
Sarah:So she was in a mainstream school..
Mary: Yes always, always in a mainstream school with therapists coming in. And the teacher had to wear the microphone, the FM. But everything in school now as well as done in teams. So it's circular conversation, you know, in any kind of noise in the background. One of the schools was renovating at the same time and there was jackhammers next door like, oh, really? You're always trying to make the situation perfect for her so that she can hear. But I mean, that's not life either, really. And then particularly when she went to high school, because there was no one else, no one else that was deaf like she was…
Sarah: were there chances where she could have made deaf friends or was that a deliberate choice that you made as a family to keep her in the hearing world?
Mary: Yeah, not really. Sophie was very busy. I kept it very busy with ballet and music, family and then friends of ours in America that were with me when Sophie was diagnosed, invited her to go to a school in America. And I was just horrified. I was like, why would she leave me and go to America? And Li said, you know, I was given an opportunity. And he she said, it will be marvellous for I said, you're crazy, absolute crazy. Anyway, so if he really wanted to go and these friends I loved and said she could she could go and she went for six months and actually during that time she was 15 and that six months turned her round. If she went from maths bottom to like maths top and she came back and went, I am smart, really smart. So then she started to really work hard. There wasn't a lot of time for discovery. And she did to have a few deaf friends, but she didn't really sign. So it was intermittent.
Sarah: She had surgery for a second cochlear implant when she was a teenager. So it was all of this that the surgery and this intensive speech therapy and and all the care and attention you were taking, was it working? Was she speaking? Were you being able to have those conversations with her that you had wanted to have?
Mary: Not yet. We were very proud of her. There were some wonderful times when she spoke at the end of graduation at St Paul's Church. But and the second implant, she was like, you don't know everything. I don't want to have it. And that was difficult and she did have that and she didn't believe in that second implant and she doesn't hear as well on the other one is more sort of gives her a bit more background noise.
Sarah: So Sophie had gone through all of her schooling, working with her implants and working to lip read and to speak and then gone on to university. When did she first learn Auslan sign language?
Mary: I think she picked up little bits and pieces. There was a voice, a program, I think it was in her 11th grade where the University of Melbourne was encouraging confidence in voice on deaf children. And she was part of that group, which was wonderful. And she made some great friends in that group. And most of them signed but didn't speak. She learned a little bit then, but she used to volunteer for an organization. So this is how she found her way into the deaf world. She used to volunteer for an organization called Here for You, which is about giving confidence to young teenage deaf teenagers to keep them in school. And eventually she ended up running that program in the state of Victoria and the other work partner was deaf. Sophie did the oral side and she did the signing side, Meg her name is. And Sophie said she was incredible. And she just said, Sophie, it's not good enough. You can learn. And Sophie learnt the sign probably in about maybe, you know, a year and a half became completely fluent. And I actually think her language or her ability to speak actually flowed better. I mean, it's just a nuance that I think there's no studies done out on that. But I just think it gave her a very relaxed and and she can switch from sign into speaking into anything.
Sarah: How did learning sign language change things socially for Sophie?
Mary: Oh, I think she found her social group very much in the in the deaf world for quite some time. And then she ended up working for Vic Deaf. She was a social media person, so her whole world expanded.
Sarah: Was that scary for you at all, this this hearing mother who so wanted her daughter to hear and speak?
Mary: No, not really. Not really. But I did worry that maybe at some point she wouldn't want to speak. And that made me sad because, I mean, I wouldn't have the way of communication. So I never really spoke that out loud. And I don't think, you know, I don't think she would have. But at a certain point she did. She threw her implant's down and basically said, you know, you don't understand because I think she wanted us to make that step towards signing.
Sarah: How did you react to to that? Well, I was broken hearted, and Li sort of kept me away from Sophie because I thought she was sort of ungrateful, really, from all the time and effort we put in. And I didn't think it was a great choice because I thought for her to have the choice of both worlds was better. And then eventually Sophie came round and we opened up a bit more and our relationship kind of went into another area and she ended up coming and staying with us. She was applying for a job in China and waiting for a visa. And she was sort of like a on a cat on a hot tin roof because she was, you know, worried about work, and Li suggested she write some notes down or maybe tell her story, and this is how it evolved into my story. Sophie said don’t worry mum I will help you.
Sarah: So you worked on on your book together, you and Sophie…
Sophie: she would come and wake me in the morning, just like Neal. She put the piece of paper and she'd say, Right, I write what you just say, start at the beginning. She said it doesn't matter what you write. So I wrote freehand and then she would type it up and then I could hear her laughing her head off. And I thought to hear her laughing her head off over the McKendrey family. And then she just said, Mom, this is brilliant. You have to write me. I said, it's not brilliant. It's just what happened, you know?
Sarah: There's all the funny, gorgeous stories of your family and meeting Li and all of that to talk about with Sophie. But then there was also some really hard stuff around her diagnosis and your determination to keep her inside the hearing world, the speaking world, as she told you more about what that had been like for her, did it make you second guess some of the decisions you'd made through her life?
Mary: Uh, no, not really, no. I was very glad that she had found a way to communicate in the deaf community. And after I finished the book, both Li and I thought we should learn to sign as well. And so every Monday night, Sophie comes with her beautiful friend, Shannon, and Kim comes with her beautiful little deaf baby. And we all learn sign when we're not too busy. And I have to say, I'm better than Li because Sophie and I have a few sneaky coffees together. And Sophie’s so patient, she's such a patient teacher. Anything I go because you do it and then you forget what that sign was and she'll just repeat it. And it's just such a beautiful language. And it sort of opened me up to some of her beautiful friends as well.
Sarah: So those roles are reversed to where you were the teacher for so long and now she's teaching. Yes. You gave up your dancing career for Sophie. Has she ever seen you on stage?
Mary: She did, actually. So she and a friend flew up from Melbourne when they were living in Melbourne. I was doing they begged me to do the nurse in Romeo and Juliet. I was like, I don't think I can walk down those stairs in the big skirt.
Sarah: And how long since you'd been on stage?
Mary: Oh, I don't know, 25 years or something. And the nurse role is a big role and, you know, it was amazing, but I was quite nervous to do it again. And they came up from Melbourne and Sophie was very emotional. When she came backstage, she said, Mum, that's the first time I've seen you on stage. And I was shocked and yeah, because it came home to her. And then my little one also saw when Li did The Nutcracker, when I did the one of the characters in the prologue, and she was sobbing as well.
Sarah: Given how much you’d loved dance and how much of your life was devoted, I mean, it's not like a job that you love nine to five. It's your whole life. Yeah. Were there moments when you were there with Sophie battling to get her to make differences in sounds and and speak that you were missing that?
Mary: Oh, always. Always. But I, I mean, love won out, didn't it? And I sort of try to say to people, just because I gave it up from that time, my passion for dance never left me. And that's why I'm teaching today and it's still there. So even if you have a change, all your life ends up going in a right angle, another way you can still love. So that that passion was always there and it ended up giving me something in my later years that I never would have. I certainly didn't assume that we would be in Queensland. And I know Li didn't either. And we certainly didn't think we'd be he'd be running a Ballet company and I would be having the most perfect job possible. So some things are meant to be.
Sarah: Mary, thank you so much for for sharing your story on Conversations.
Mary: Thank you.
Mary Li says she was the least likely girl to grow up to be a ballerina.
She grew up in a family of eight kids in the rough and tumble of the Queensland country town of Rockhampton.
But in a little timber hall, with cattle trains rolling by outside, Mary discovered a talent for dance.
That talent, and a huge amount of hard work and family support took her to the Royal Ballet School in London at sixteen.
She then became the principal dancer with the London Festival Ballet, then the Houston ballet.
There in Houston Mary fell in love with her dance partner Li Cunxin.
Li had also come a long way from his home in rural China, defecting to the U.S. as an adult and then becoming an internationally celebrated dancer.
In Houston Li and Mary married and had their first child, a beautiful daughter named Sophie.
But when Sophie was 16 months old their lives were turned upside down.
Mary's Last Dance is published by Penguin
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The midnight prayer means the Tahajjud prayer. “Tahajjud” is derived from “Hujud”, meaning sleep. Tahajjud signifies giving up sleep. The prayer was observed by the Holy Prophet (p.b.o.h.) from midnight up to the appearance of the early dawn. Tahajjud namaz is one of the non-obligatory prayers that one should pray in the latter part of the night after getting some sleep. Allah says:
وَمِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَتَهَجَّدْ بِهِ نَافِلَةً لَّكَ عَسَىٰ أَن يَبْعَثَكَ رَبُّكَ مَقَامًا مَّحْمُودًا
“And from [part of] the night, pray with it as additional [worship] for you; it is expected that your Lord will resurrect you to a praised station.” (Surah Al-Isra` 17:79)
Importance of Tahajjud Prayer
Tahajjud means to abandon sleep so that you can pray Salah. There are Numbers of Hadith and verses that emphasize the significance of invoking Allah Almighty by solicitation and prayers in the darkest nights.
“The Lord descends every night to the lowest heaven when one-third of the night remains and says: ‘Who will call upon Me, that I may answer Him? Who will ask of Me, that I may give him? Who will seek My forgiveness that I may forgive him?’” (Bukhari, Muslim)
Tahajjud prayer usually is done alone without together. Tahajjud prayer is not limited in number, but at least two Rakah. As Prophet Muhammad (SAW) explained:
“Evening prayer that two-two.” (Bukhari)
Time of Tahajjud Prayer
Tahajjud prayer may be performed in the early part of the night, the middle part of the night, or the later part of the night, but after the obligatory Isha prayer. Tahajjud prayer can be performed whenever in the night unless the doer time for sleep. But the best time to perform is 1/3 of the night after waking up from sleep. The time to perform Tahajjud prayer is since the specified Isha until dawn (all night) after getting up from sleep. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has told his followers:
Abu Muslim asked Abu Zhar: “Which late-night prayer is the best?” He said: “I asked the Messenger of Allah the same that you asked me and he said, ‘The (one done during) middle of the latter half of the night, and very few do it.’” (Ahmad)
It can’t be offered straight away after Isha, yet just after one`s rest, neither when the time is close to Fajr.
Conditions of offering Tahajjud Prayer
- Make sure to perform Wudu as one should perform before every tahajjud namaz.
- Move to a clean and quiet place in the house being away from distractions.
- Offer at least two Raka`ts up to 12, depending on one`s willpower.
- Make an intention of performing Tahajjud prayer and rearrange to wake up finally a piece of the night.
- Don’t forget to supplicate to Allah SWT for one`s just and rightful requests to get benefited from this exceedingly rewarding hour of darkness.
Benefits of Tahajjud Prayer
Following benefits one could get by offering Tahajjud prayer:
- It gives inner strength
- It gives mental toughness
- Seek forgiveness and surely Allah will listen
- It can bring fresh inspiration and innovation
- Tahajjud prayer can strengthen the memory
- Tahajjud prayer can strengthen religious understanding
- Tahajjud prayer can delete wickedness and prevent the act of sin
- The doors of Mercy and Forgiveness are open during the last 1/3 of the night
- If someone wishes his/her Dua to be accepted this is the best time to ask
- A huge incentive for the believer to wake up when everyone else is asleep and remember Allah (SWT) alone
The excellence of night prayer
Great rewards and merits have been promised for the night prayer. Allah descends to the lowest heaven in the latter part of the night and invites invocations and petitions. Therefore the latter part of the night, especially the middle of the latter half of the night is an opportune moment for acceptance of prayers. Allah says:
وَالَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًا وَقِيَامًا
“And those who spend (the) night before their Lord, prostrating and standing.” (Surah Al-Furqan 25:64)
There is a moment in the night in which the prayer of a devotee is accepted. Night prayer expiates and prevents sins. The honourable among the Muslims are those learned in the Quran and those who pray at night.
Perfect Time for Tahajud
Tahajud prayers can be offered from Isha prayers until Subah Sadiq (the true dawn) as no specific or exact time has been marked in the sacred scriptures but has deemed necessary upon one’s ease. Despite the convenient time, the Wistar prayers can be performed in the early night, middle night and later night but among three the best one that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has told to his followers is the middle night as quoted:
“Which late-night prayer is the best?” He said: “I asked the Messenger of Allah the same that you asked me and he said, ‘The (one done during) middle of the latter half of the night, and very few do it.’” [Ahmad]
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Vertica workloads range from simple primary key lookups to analytical queries that include several large tables and joins. Different types of load jobs must keep the data updated. Vertica has a mixed-workload management capability that is easy to use.
Vertica can process queries both concurrently and in parallel. Concurrency means having multiple jobs running in an overlapping time interval in a system, regardless of whether those jobs run at the same instant. Parallelism means that two or more jobs are running at the exact same instant.
The average response time in a system that does not process concurrently is shorter than the average response time in a time-sharing system with no cost for context-switching. In systems with highly concurrent workloads, queuing improves system performance over time. It is best to have multiple CPU cores on your Vertica nodes because this configuration allows for parallel processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
To better understand these concepts, imagine you have two one hour tasks to complete. You can complete these tasks in a few different ways:
• Complete them one by one (serially). Deliver one task in the first hour and the other in the second hour. The average runtime is 90 minutes.
• Complete them concurrently (multi-tasking). Finish both tasks in two hours, with an average runtime of 120 minutes. This option demonstrates ideal resource sharing, assuming there is no context-switching cost.
• Add another worker and perform the two tasks in parallel. Complete the jobs in an hour, with an average runtime of 60 minutes.
In concurrent mode, progress is made on both tasks. Vertica uses lockless concurrency control on queries. Using locks can introduce contention between shared resources. Vertica is based on a shared-nothing massively parallel processing architecture. This approach provides better workload management to achieve both system performance (throughput) and response time (latency) within a cluster.
Linear concurrency means that increasing the number of outstanding requests increases the total response time proportionally.
There are a few types of linear concurrency:
• Perfectly linear: Each task is processed without wasting resources and there is perfect resource sharing. There is no apparent advantage to running multiple jobs concurrently.
• Worse than linear: Running multiple jobs takes more time than running each job one by one. Processing is obstructed by issues that include lock conflicts on shared resources, context-switching costs, and skews in data distribution.
• Better than linear: Running multiple jobs takes less time than serial execution. This happens because of cooperative caching, the ability to work on encoded data, and spare resources for each task.
Short Query Bias
In a mixed workload environment, short query bias prioritizes short, tactical queries over long-running or more complex queries. In Vertica, you can tune two resource parameters, RUNTIMEPRIORITYTHRESHOLD and RUNTIMEPRIORITY, to allow higher priority access to resources for those short queries. For more information, see Setting Run-Time Priority for the Resource Pool
in the Vertica documentation.
Let’s suppose again we have two tasks to complete. One task takes one hour to finish and the other task takes two hours to finish. Consider three ways to accomplish these two tasks:
• Process the two tasks serially by completing the short task first and the longer task second. The average runtime is two hours.
• Process the tasks concurrently (multitasking). If we assume there is no context-switching, the average runtime is two hours at 15 minutes.
• Process the tasks serially, but queue the long task first and the short task second. The average runtime is two hours and 30 minutes.
The average response time in a system depends on how the tasks are ordered. Prioritizing short jobs over long jobs improves the throughput. The task order is also important when tuning a mixed workload.
While queuing improves the overall system performance in a busy system, prioritizing short queries over longer running queries is a better option.
Databases must provide robust mixed workload management capabilities. For effective workload management, you should use your available system resources to meet your business requirements. You manage workloads based on the relative priority or urgency of each request. In a mixed workload environment, you must tune your Vertica database so that it provides both a fast response time for short tactical queries, and has acceptable response times for longer queries.
Vertica manages complex workloads using the Resource Manager. With this tool, you manage resource pools, which are predefined subsets of system resources with an associated queue. Vertica is preconfigured with a set of built-in resource pools that allocate resources to different request types. The GENERAL pool allows for a certain concurrency level, which is determined by the RAM and CPU cores on the node.
The Vertica resource management scheme allows diverse, concurrent workloads to run efficiently. For basic operations, the default GENERAL pool is usually sufficient. However, you can customize this pool to handle specific workload requirements.
In more complex situations, you can also define resource pools to configure memory usage and query priority. Optionally, to control memory consumption, you can restrict each database user’s request to a specific resource pool and limit the total memory used, the total amount of temporary space, and so on.
A resource pool contains several parameters that you can tune to fit any specific requirement. For more information, see Resource Pool Architecture
in the Vertica documentation.
Throughput represents the number of queries or jobs that a database can perform in a unit of time. This value is the most commonly used metric for measuring a database’s performance.
Response time is the sum of queuing time and runtime. It depends on both concurrency and query performance.
For a given workload, the three metrics – throughput, concurrency, and performance – are related through the following equation:
Throughput = Concurrency * Performance
If you know any of the two metrics, you can derive the third. This relationship is illustrated through the Workload Management Metrics Triangle:
Often, concurrency is not a direct requirement because it depends on query performance and throughput. For example, suppose you must process 1200 queries in 1 minute (20 queries per second). Assume that you have two competing systems, X and Y:
• On System X, executing this workload requires a concurrency level of 40 with an average query runtime of two seconds
• On System Y, executing this workload requires a concurrency level of 2, with an average query runtime of 100 milliseconds.
System Y has superior quality processing capabilities. For a given throughput, the better the query performance, the less concurrency it needs. Less concurrency means more efficient resource usage and a better overall system performance. This performance improvement happens because more system resources are available to process other workloads.
Before you start any workload management tuning, consider the following about your database:
• Workload types
• Maximum number of users
• Expected throughput
• Expected response time
• Maximum allowable runtime for each job type
In Vertica, the best way to determine query complexity is by looking at memory usage. The Resource Manager attempts to allocate memory equally among different workloads or resource pools. The goal is to verify that no resource pool is starved out of memory in the worst-case scenario, when under full system load.
If you can determine how much memory a query requires per node, you can use that value to classify a Vertica query. Vertica recommends the following query classification guidelines:
• Small: <200 MB
• Medium: 200 – 800 MB
• Large: >800 MB
You can use the PROFILE statement to get the total memory required for the query. You should set up a small profiling pool as shown in the following:
=>CREATE RESOURCE POOL p_pool MEMORYSIZE ‘1K’ PRIORITY 80 PLANNED CONCURRENCY 4 MAXCONCURRENCY 4;
Creating this dedicated profiling pool forces a query to borrow from the GENERAL pool for any extra memory it needs to execute. If you use the GENERAL pool, the reserved memory could be more than the query needs. If this is the case, Vertica reports on reserved memory instead of the actual memory used, which could skew results.
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- YIMOU LEE and MARTIN QUIN POLLARD
Taipei, Taiwan/Beijing, China
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was due to visit Taiwan on Tuesday, three sources said, as the US said it would not be intimidated by Chinese threats to never ” stand idly by” if she made the journey to self-reliance. island claimed by Beijing.
Pelosi, who began an Asia trip earlier Monday in Singapore, was due to spend Tuesday evening in Taiwan, three people briefed on the matter said.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi shakes hands with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore on August 1. PHOTO: Mohd Fyrol Official Photographer/Department of Communications and Information/Handout via Reuters.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said it had no comment on reports of Pelosi’s travel plans, but the White House – which has not confirmed the trip – said it had the right to leave.
China’s responses could include missile launches near Taiwan, large-scale air or naval activity, or other “false legal claims” such as Beijing’s assertion that the Taiwan Strait is not an international waterway, White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington.
“We’re not going to bite the bait or indulge in swordplay. At the same time, we’re not going to be intimidated,” Kirby said.
Amid widespread speculation that she plans to stop in Taiwan, Pelosi’s office said Sunday she was leading a congressional delegation to the region that would include visits to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. . He did not mention Taiwan.
A source told Reuters that the United States informed some allies of Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Two other sources said Pelosi was due to meet with a small group of activists who are outspoken about China’s human rights record while in Taiwan, possibly on Wednesday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Monday it would be “blatant interference in China’s internal affairs” if Pelosi visited Taiwan, and warned it would lead to “developments and very serious consequences”.
“We would like to tell the United States once again that China is here, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will never stand idly by, and China will take resolute responses and strong countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Zhao told a regular reporter. daily briefing.
Asked what kind of measures the PLA might take, Zhao said, “If she dares to go, let’s wait and see.”
China sees visits by US officials to Taiwan as an encouraging signal for the island’s pro-independence camp. Washington has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan but is required by US law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
A visit by Pelosi, second in line to the US presidency and a longtime critic of China, would come amid deteriorating ties between Washington and Beijing. Republican Newt Gingrich was the last Speaker of the House to visit Taiwan, in 1997.
A man stands in front of a window displaying the Global Times newspaper which features a front-page story about US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Asia tour in Beijing, China, August 1. The title of the first page reads: “Pelosi visits Asia in the smell of gunpowder”. PHOTO: Reuters/Thomas Peter
A video from the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, which showed scenes of military drills and preparations and which was posted on state media sites on Monday night, urged troops to “stand ready in battle formation, to be ready to fight on command, to bury all enemies.”
The White House dismissed China’s rhetoric as baseless and inappropriate.
Kirby said nothing about Pelosi’s eventual trip had changed US policy towards Taiwan, and that Beijing was well aware that the division of powers within the US government meant that Pelosi would make her own decisions about the visit.
“The speaker has the right to travel to Taiwan,” he said during the White House briefing.
In a phone call last Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned US President Joe Biden that Washington should abide by the one-China principle and that “those who play with fire shall perish.”
Biden told Xi that US policy on Taiwan has not changed and that Washington strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, struck a measured tone with reporters on Friday, a day after Biden spoke with Xi, saying one of the goals of the dialogue was to ease tensions over Taiwan.
“I think China and the United States don’t want a conflict in the Taiwan Strait,” Liu said.
On Monday, Taiwanese Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang did not directly respond when asked if Pelosi would visit, but told reporters that visits from “distinguished foreign guests” were welcome.
Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, said if Pelosi traveled to Taiwan it would trigger Beijing’s strongest countermeasures in years, but he didn’t expect that. this triggers a major military conflict.
“China has unambiguously reiterated its opposition to Taiwan separatism. The United States has repeatedly stated that its one-China policy has not changed and that it is against any change to the status quo on either else from the Taiwan Strait,” he said. .
“Except by accident, I’m sure neither side would intentionally take military action that could result in a major security risk.”
On Monday, Pelosi and her delegation met with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, discussing issues including cross-Strait relations, the war in Ukraine and climate change, the Singaporean foreign ministry said.
“Prime Minister Lee stressed the importance of stable relations between the United States and China for regional peace and security,” he said.
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Beijing considers Taiwan to be part of its territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan rejects China’s sovereignty claims and says only its people can decide the island’s future.
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Global & Postcolonial Studies
The Program in Global & Postcolonial Studies (GPS™) offers an interdisciplinary lens on internal and external forms of colonialism through the study of literature, culture, and theory. In addition to exploring the intersection of postcolonial studies with the “Global South” and diaspora studies, GPS turns to new areas of study associated with globalization: emergent notions of “World Literature,” critical studies of the future, digital humanities, and the evolving landscape of cultural expressions in the wake of different forms of colonialism. The program provides a forum for extending our understanding of core issues in the humanities via global narratives of race, power, and identity while building a strong community of those working on these shared interests.
GPS involves Emory faculty whose work focuses on one or more of the following areas of research and publication: postcolonial literatures and cultures in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas; African American, Native American, and Migrant studies; Globalization and Transnational phenomena. GPS includes faculty, students, and staff from the English, French, Comparative Literature, Spanish, Philosophy, and Religion departments, Digital Humanities and Gender / Sexuality Studies, and our valuable support staff at the library and different units at Emory. GPS offers an ongoing series of colloquia as well as programming responsive to evolving historical contexts.
GPS outreach welcomes faculty and students from the Atlanta-wide academic community.
Deepika Bahri: Postcolonial studies, Global literature, South Asian, African novel, Aesthetics & Politics
Munia Bhaumik: Postcolonial studies, comparative racialization, queer feminism, American and World literatures
Michael Elliott: Native American literature
Susan Gagliardi: Arts in West Africa, Museums and Display Methods, Patronage
Robert Goddard: Caribbean Nationalism, Sugar Capitalism
James Hoesterey: Islam, Popular Culture, New Media, Moral Subjectivity, Religious Biography, Religious Authority
Dilek Huseyinzadegan: Social and Political Thought, Kant and German Idealism, 20th Century European Philosophy, Feminism, Philosophies of Race.
Arun W. Jones: Christian Missions, History of the Church in North India
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath: South Asian studies, gender and feminist theory, South Indian literatures
Scott Kugle: Sufism, Islamic society in South Asia, Gender and Sexuality
Valérie Loichot: Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literatures, global South relations
Sean Meighoo: Race and postcolonial studies, Feminism and queer studies, Post-Humanism and animal studies
José Quiroga: Latin/o American Literature, Cuban and Caribbean literatures and cultures, queer theory
Falguni Sheth: Continental & political philosophy, legal and critical race theory, philosophy of race, post-colonial, theory, and sub-altern and gender studies
Dan Sinykin: Publishing studies, microfinance, representations of Mexico in US literature, apocalypse
Mandy Suhr-Sytsma: Indigenous literature, Indigenous studies, multiethnic literature, children’s/young adult literature, childhood studies, rhetoric, writing
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: Postcolonial studies, Nigerian literature
Craig Womack: Native American studies and literature
Subha Xavier: Global French literature, migration and diaspora studies, Postcolonial studies
Franck Andrianarivo: Colonial and Postcolonial studies, Indian Ocean studies, French and Francophone studies, African studies, Island studies, Francophone films, gender studies, pedagogy.
My current project looks at literary and other artistic productions from the French and Francophone islands of the Indian Ocean (Madagascar, La Réunion, Maurice) in relation to those of the Caribbean. I am pursuing a certificate in Film and media studies to study Films from Francophone Africa. I am also interested in gender studies and in pedagogy, especially in Second Language Acquisition.
Bailey Betik: post/colonial approaches to Romantic and Victorian literature, cultural studies, contemporary education, space and empire
I am interested in representation of space, identity, and encounter in Romantic and Victorian literature, specifically India and Ireland. Additionally, I am interested in how imperial texts and pedagogies impact the current-day classroom.
Brenton Boyd: black queer/trans* diaspora studies, Circum-Caribbean cultures, black ontology and creolization, dancehall culture, modernity/(de)coloniality, coastal aesthetics and tourism, US South-Caribbean transregionalism
My current work interrogates the paradoxes, epistemologies, and violences that constellate around the quotidian experiences of black queer/trans* subjects in geographical sites of creolization (e.g. the Anglo- and Francophone Caribbean, Louisiana, and the Sea Islands). Thinking beyond academe and with/from such spaces as the dancehall and the Vodou peristyle, I trace global discourses that throw knowledge, language, and ultimately ‘the human’ into crisis when met by the (im)possibilities of black queer/trans* life in the Tropics.
Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli (Ph.D.): postcolonial theory, settler colonialism, imperialism, national narratives, imagined communities, desire.
My dissertation proposes a term, “imperial postcoloniality,” which describes the particular situation of settler colonialism in which independence is simultaneously elaborated through new configurations of colonialism, imperialism and radicalization. By analyzing texts written by J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Zoe Wicomb to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Apess, I argue that at the heart of the imperial postcolonial nation’s imagined community lies an anxiety over the origins and reproduction of the nation. Further, it is precisely this anxiety that exposes the modes of racialized desire that are central to the nation’s ideological and material reproduction. However, this white settler narration is continually unsettled by other voices and presences, including its own fictions of whiteness. In fact, the cohesion of national narratives is always threatened by the historical reality of non-linear, dispossessed, obscured and rerouted lines of descent.
Tesla Cariani: Visual Culture Studies – Queer/Trans* Studies, Theory, and Literature – 2Sprit/ Indigenous Studies – Queer Globalization
Divided into four chapters that focus on culturally significant embodied experiences of LGBTQ2IA+ subjects (illness, violence, transition, and pleasure), my dissertation points towards instances of visual representation that imagines ways of being that do not fit neatly into familiar narratives of gender or sexuality. By turning to queer, trans*, and 2Spirit artists who work in framed mediums (comics, photography, and film), my project analyzes strategies of visual representation that challenge the limits of each medium and open up possibilities for nonbinary embodiment.
Natalie Catasús: Cuban and Caribbean literature and visual culture; postcolonial theory; poetry and poetics; oral history; migration, diaspora, and exile studies; trauma and memory studies
My current project explores the legacy of the balseros (Cuban Rafters) in literature and visual culture in the United States, Cuba, and the Cuban diaspora. The project centers on questions of memorial, dispossession, and the relative (in)visibility of migrant death at sea in public discourse.
Joseph Fritsch: poetry, poetics, postcolonial theory, media studies
I study the ways poetry circulates through transnational print cultures and how these material realities inform both composition and reading practices.
Roselyne Gérazime (Ph.D.): Postcolonial studies, artistic and literary productions of the African Diaspora (French, Spanish, and English speaking Caribbean studies, American studies), francophone Africa, psychoanalysis and visual arts.
I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of French and Italian at Emory University. My dissertation focuses on the expression of spiritual beliefs in Caribbean and American art & literature. My academic interests encompass Postcolonial studies, the Caribbean (French, Spanish and English speaking), African-American culture and literature, Psychoanalysis and Visual Arts.
Hannah Hjerpe-Schroeder: Caribbean literature and culture, queer theory, women’s narratives, postcolonial literature and theory, island narratives, Afrofuturism and Black speculative fiction
I am interested in the ways in which Caribbean literature challenges Western narratives of modernity, and what these challenges can suggest about contemporary notions of navigating Anthropocentric entropy.
Amir Hussain: Nineteenth and twentieth century poetry, comparative and global poetics, historical materialism, cultural theory
My dissertation is a comparative study of three modern poets—Oscar Wilde, Muriel Rukeyser, and Bertolt Brecht—at the intersections of poetry and history. As Wilhelm Dilthey has argued in Poetry and Experience, in modern times “poetry is not an imitation of a reality which already exists prior to it” but rather poetry becomes one of multiple modes, including with history, of interpreting experience and “viewing the world” (12). For my project methodology, I draw on Dilthey and on historical materialist critics like Walter Benjamin who foreground an interest in class and the socially oppressed. Combining close reading of poetry with historical interpretation and a comparative selection of poets, I read not only lines of poetry but also the lines between poetry and history, inquiring into how history is broken into poetry as a mode of (re)interpreting personal and historical experience. My project, like the art of poetry in general, begins with the details of specific poems by Wilde, Rukeyser, and Brecht, and out of these details positions them as poets within a wider tradition of historical materialism. I argue that their poems in particular, which in the case of Wilde and Brecht are underrepresented in scholarship in relation to their other works, provide an arena to think about how modern poetry materializes a history of the downtrodden.
Stephanie C. Iasiello (Ph.D.): neo-slave narratives, neo-abolition, Zong massacre, Back Atlantic
In my dissertation, “Slavery and its Afterlives: Contemporary (Re)imaginings of the Zong Massacre,” I examine representations of the 1781 Zong massacre, a crucial episode in the history of the abolitionist movement. I include 21st century works of art, literature, theater and film from across the Black Atlantic, all of which have taken the Zong as their subject. I argue that it is precisely this multiplicity of representations that affords us the opportunity to see in ways that would be challenging if we confined our inquiry to a single form, as each genre engages different imaginative capacities thereby enabling us to understand both the Zong and our present moment in new ways. Because the Zong incident was unquestionably integral to the abolitionist agenda, then we ought to view the renewed interest in the event as a neo-abolitionist gesture. Ultimately, I argue that this assortment of works enables us to see and understand our current moment as an ideologically cognate to slavery thus allowing us to look to the past to envision the ongoing necessity of abolitionist work.
Yazan Kamalulddin: postcolonial studies, North Africa, migration, identity
My project is still in its early phases, but I am currently focusing on questions of migration, identity and belonging, especially in the context of French secularity (Laïcité) in relation to North Africa.
Rebecca Kumar (Ph.D.): Postcolonial Literature and Shakespeare
From Aimé Césaire’s 1969 seminal Caribbean reworking of The Tempest, Une Tempête (1969), charged with the markedly homosocial politics of “Negritude”, to more recent Bollywood film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, animated by campy song and dance routines, postcolonial authors have long engaged with gender crossing and non-normative sexuality as modes to critique the so-called colonial “Bard”. These rewritings are what I call “loose translations” of Shakespeare – sexual implications of descriptor intended – because they foreground queer desire as a means to productively “loosen” “straight” and stable notions of national identity across different temporalities, histories, and geographies. And yet, literary critics have largely ignored the sexual dimension of these culturally hybrid works. My project highlights how this oversight is a trend in postcolonialism, rooted in a refusal of colonial pedagogies of Shakespeare that were used to construct differences between the sexually “civilized” West and those perverse and debauched “others”. Ironically, in its effort to disavow what the West seemed to view as sexual deviancy, postcolonialism has actually reproduced colonially inflected erotophobias, rarely moving beyond heteronormative assumptions, even when queer desires, particularly the disciplining of them, remain integral to maintaining oppressive orders after Empire. My dissertation contends that any investigation into the ways in which world writers “write back” to Shakespeare must consider the representation of queerness in these translations – or it remains complicit in the continual subjection of bodies to colonial codes of sexual civility and dismisses contemporary modes of resistance against Eurocentric mores.
Mike Lehman: postcolonial theory, migration studies, border theory
My current project looks at the representation of organs and organ transplantations in postcolonial literatures and the implications this has for a theoretical approach that questions the current structure of the world. My project specifically looks at what is/is not allowed to cross borders and explores the ability to cross borders in strange ways.
Judith Levy: race, gender, diasporic literature, memory, temporality
My dissertation brings the work of Algerian-born philosopher, novelist, and playwright Albert Camus into conversation with postcolonial literature of the Caribbean. This involves an analysis of time’s functionality in history and memory, especially in regards to the topics of race, gender, migration, and exile. By tracing the ontological modes of imperialism and colonialism, I analyze fabricated teleological, linear conceptions of time and compare them to the anomalies posed by the literature of various postcolonial authors.
Aruni Mahapatra (Ph.D.): the novel, book history, genre, intertextuality, reading, nationalism
In my research I ask how communities are destroyed and re-made by technologies of printing. How do methods of reading and writing move, as people and technologies do? I trace inter-continental movements of people, technology and culture to investigate how global forces act on local provinces, and the violence of colonial rule often gives societies new ways to imagine communities.
Suzanne Persard: queer Caribbean/feminist/literary/post-colonial studies and these intersections; diaspora and empire/citizenship. decolonial politics.
I am interested in the production and problematizing of citizenship with regard to theories of gender/sexuality, and these entanglements in queer post-colonial theory.
Karlie Rodriguez: comparative theory, spacetime studies, globalization, diasporic and colonial aesthetics, and American || Puerto Rican studies.
My current intellectual and creative projects center around the notion of “Transtime” (my term–currently under development).
Caroline Schwenz (Ph.D.): postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature, diasporic literature
Caroline Schwenz graduated from Emory University in 2017. Her dissertation forwards a postcolonial theory of laughter and comedy that attends to the reasons why such literature frequently turns to comedy instead of tragedy. She was a Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellowship at Dillard University. Her research interests are in postcolonial studies and theory, Caribbean literature, diasporic literature, comedy and laughter theories, assessment, and teaching and learning.
Ishanika Sharma: Victorian and postcolonial literature, literary theory, psychoanalysis; film and media studies
I am interested in how texts complicate questions of identity, self-determination, and violence in the postcolonial context. I study how literary theory both engages and delimits our conceptions of this violence.
Molly Slavin (Ph.D.): postcolonial studies, urbanism, criminality
My dissertation, “Criminal Cities: Postcolonial Crime in the Contemporary Novels of London, Belfast, Bombay, and Johannesburg,” looks at portrayals of crime and criminality alongside theories of urbanism in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century novels of London, Belfast, Bombay, and Johannesburg.
Angelica So (Ph.D.): Postcolonial studies, critical race theory, French Indochina, Southeast Asian studies, memory and trauma
I am currently a PhD candidate in French Literature at Emory University and a Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of New Mexico. My dissertation focuses on métissage and trauma in Southeast Asian Francophone literature. My teaching and research interests include 20th and 21st century Francophone literature, whiteness studies, French Indochina, and Southeast Asian studies.
Marlo Starr (Ph.D.): archipelago, indigenous feminisms, gender, settler colonialism, creolization, Pacific Studies, Caribbean Studies
My dissertation, tentatively titled “Blue Caribbean/Black Pacific: Navigating Contemporary Women’s Poetry,” focuses on anglophone poetry primarily from the 1970s to the present. Though the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands rarely appear in the same critical conversations, I argue that both regions are marked by archipelagic histories, and by looking exclusively at women’s poetry from these regions, I investigate shared experiences of marginalization based on double jeopardies of European colonization and local gender hierarchies. Ultimately, I contend that through women’s shared experiences of marginalization on both local and global scales, affinities emerge between disparate ethnic identities — between native and creole and between Pacific and Atlantic.
Palak Taneja: Partition, Memory Studies, Objects, Postmemory, Home, Nation, Trauma
My research project titled “Material Memory and the Partition” seeks to bring to the fore and study objects and things that act as aids, trigger, and interact with the human subject to create, maintain, and even transfer memories of a traumatic event like the Partition of India.
I am analyzing the objects that people left behind while fleeing their home, the ones they brought to their new country, and even ones they pass onto their future generations that become part of their legacy. These objects, like dressing tables, sewing machines, jewelry, and clothes can be found in literature, folk art, popular culture, and newly inaugurated museums. My dissertation uses interdisciplinary source material and depends on a similar range of theories as well from trauma, cultural memory studies, gender studies to object-oriented ontology, thing theory, and theories of materiality. It is an attempt to understand what kind of memories do these objects create and shape, and how are these memories to be understood and passed on seventy years after the event?
William Tolbert: American imperialism, postcolonial theory, politics of representation
I am currently working on a PhD with research interests in American imperialism, postcolonial theory, and the politics of representation. Methodologically, I am interested in critical discourse analysis and quantitative analysis. As a life-long learner-educator, I am committed to reversing top-down models of knowledge transmission and empowering students to continually revise social constructions.
Marion Tricoire (Ph.D.): Sub-Saharan African literature, Francophone Studies, Urban Humanities, Postcolonial Literatures, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Literary Translation
I am currently an Assistant Professor of French at Grinnell College where I teach and research African Literature and/of the Francophone world. My current research project explores how contemporary urban literary fiction from Africa reimagines the city for its many hidden possibilities. In particular, my scholarly work discusses novels set in Dakar, Kinshasa, Douala, Lagos, and Luanda. I have published an article in French Review entitled, “Trajectoires Urbaines: Dakar au prisme d’Aller et Retour de Ken Bugul” (2019) and my article “Article 15 and the shégués children in Marie-Louise Mumbu’s Samantha à Kinshasa” is forthcoming (Fall 2020) in Research in African Literatures.
Julianna Blair Watson (Ph.D.): postcolonial studies, migration studies, literature and cinema of the African diaspora, and contemporary French and Francophone film
I recently received my Ph.D. and am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Emory University in the Department of French and Italian. My primary research focuses on the intersection of criminality, immigration, and violence. I work on colonial paradigms of racism and discrimination through the phenomena of physical, psychological, and linguistic violence. I investigate the manners in which these paradigms are transmitted and perpetuated in neocolonial and post-colonial frameworks. I primarily examine literature and film by African diasporic artists from the Maghreb and from Sub-Saharan Africa, although I include voices of European artists as well whose works address questions of migration, race, and violence.
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85363 Zip Code Income, Population and Demographics
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In this article, we'll explore most of the 190+ data points we have for 85363, covering popular demographics statistics like household income, race, age and gender, educational attainment, poverty, housing, and transportation.
85363 is a zip code in Maricopa County, Arizona, which covers Phoenix, with a total population of 6,837 people.
Median Household Income
According to the latest ACS 5-year survey in 2020, the median household income in 85363 is $42,564.00.
The chart below shows the average household income by age in 85363.
25 to 44$54,046.00
45 to 64$48,564.00
65 and over$23,582.00
Average Household Income
A very commonly asked question is "what is the average household income in the 85363 zip code?". The official term for the average household income is the mean household income. The mean household income is the total income of all households divided by the number of households.
The average (or mean) household income in 85363 is $53,573.00.
1.24% of households in the 85363 zip code are classed as high income households (making $200,000+ per year).
The difference between a median and an average income
The difference between a median and mean household income is that the median income is the middle point of the set of numbers whereas the mean income is an average of all numbers.
Both metrics are important when looking at the income statistics for 85363 but because the median value doesn't depend on other numbers in the dataset, it doesn't change as much when some of the values are extremely low or extremely high.
Household Income Tiers for 85363
We can also look at the household income tiers. This lets you see how many households fall into each of the earnings brackets and what percentage that bracket is of the total number of households.
The chart below shows the household income brackets to see which age groups have the highest median income. The actual data is more granular than these brackets, but we've simplified them into bigger categories to make reviewing the data for the 85363 zip code easier to view.
You can purchase the raw data above, which will have the full income tiers with smaller jumps in household income.
Less than $24,99930.42%
$25,000 to $49,99928.50%
$50,000 to $74,99920.06%
$75,000 to $99,99912.37%
$100,000 to $149,9995.88%
$150,000 to $199,9991.52%
$200,000 or more1.24%
Per Capita Income
The per capita income is the average income of all people in the 85363 zip code. This is calculated by dividing the total income of all people in 85363 by the total number of people in 85363.
It differs from the average or mean household income because it includes all people in 85363 and not just the people who earn an income (i.e. children, retirees, unemployed, etc.).
The per capita income in the 85363 zip code is $21,907.00.
Population in 85363 by Race and Ethnicity
The total population in 85363 is currently 6,837 people.
The race and ethnicity of the population in 85363 can be very important for social research, economics, and marketing to a multi-culturial society.
Whether you want to target products or services to a particular race or ethnicity, or provide housing and new businesses to improve areas with a larger ethnic minority population, this data is very valuable for discovering suitable areas.
The chart below breaks down the population and percentage for each race and ethnicity in the 85363 zip code.
4.30% Black/African American292
1.40% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander96
3.70% Two or more races251
Population of 85363 by Age and Gender
Another very important demographics statistic for the 85363 zip code is the age and gender of the population. The age and gender of the population can be used to track trends in population growth or decline, and for businesses, the data can be used to identify people important to you and your business need.
In the table below, we show age groups at a 10 year granularity for ease of use. The raw data, which can be purchased above, includes age and gender at a 5 year granularity.
|0 to 9 Years||483||314|
|10 to 19 Years||477||586|
|20 to 29 Years||419||330|
|30 to 39 Years||484||412|
|40 to 49 Years||504||460|
|50 to 59 Years||377||315|
|60 to 69 Years||293||293|
|70 Years and over||343||747|
Educational attainment is a very useful statistic that can give insights into other data such as the average household income, unemployment levels, and literacy.
What this means is that it is likely for areas that have higher levels of education to have higher average household incomes, lower unemployment rates, and higher literacy rates.
The chart below shows the educational attainment of the population in the 85363 zip code.
Master's degree or higher5.24%
Some college or associate's degree13.06%
High school diploma or equivalent53.73%
Less than high school diploma6.14%
The unemployment rate is the percentage of the population that is actively looking for work but is unable to find a job. The unemployment rate is a very important statistic for 85363 because it can show how many people are actively looking for work and how many people are unable to find a job.
Lower levels of unemployment is generally seen as a positive sign for the economy. It also makes the government in 85363 look good because it shows that they are doing a good job of creating jobs, working to capacity, being efficient, and keeping the economy strong.
The unemployment rate is calculated using the total population in the 85363 zip code that are over the age of 16.
The current population in 85363 that are over the age of 16 is 5,341 people.
The unemployment rate in 85363 is 44.80%, which means 2,394 people are unemployed.
Median Age in 85363
The median age is an interesting metric because it gives us an idea of the age distribution of people in the 85363 zip code. You know when you see a median age that it is the age where half of the population is older and half is younger than it.
For demographic studies, this can be used to infer and compare date to things such as birth rates, the age of parents, and so on.
An increasing median age can be a sign of an aging population, which can be a sign of a declining population. This is because older people tend to have fewer children and die more often than younger people.
The median age in 85363 is 39.4 years old.
We can also look at the median age by gender to compare the see how each group compares to the total median age:
Median age by gender in 85363
Households and Families
There are a total of 2,498 households in 85363, and the average household size is 2.65 people.
For families, the total number is 1,340, and the average family size is 3.6 people.
11.30% of those families in the 85363 zip code are living below the poverty line.
The table below shows the poverty thresholds for 85363 in 2022.
|Household Size||Poverty Threshold|
Please note that the poverty thresholds shown above are from 2022, while the latest demographics data we have is from 2020.
Households and Families by Marital Status
There are four types of household and family, as defined by the Census Bureau:
- Male householder, no spouse present
- Female householder, no spouse present
- Nonfamily household
In the table below, you can see the total households and families in the 85363 zip code for each type, as well as the average sizes.
|Average Household Size||3.82||4.5||3.83||1.22|
|Average Household Size||3.77||3.47||3.29||0|
Housing Data in 85363
There are total of 2,746 housing units in the 85363 zip code. Of those units, 2,498 (90.97%) are occupied, and 248 (9.03%) are vacant.
Of the 2,746 housing units in 85363, 1,189 (43.30%) are occupied by renters. The median rent paid by renters is $991.00.
Owner occupied housing units make up the remaining 44.21% of housing units, with 1,214 housing units in total.
The table below breaks down how much rent is paid by renters in the 85363 zip code.
No rent paid95
Less than $50046
$500 to $999564
$1,000 to $1,499451
$1,500 to $1,999107
$2,000 to $2,49921
$2,500 to $2,9990
$3,000 or more0
The median value of a property in 85363 is $169,300.00.
The table below breaks down the range of valuations for all properties in 85363.
Less than $50,00038
$50,000 to $99,999111
$100,000 to $149,999287
$150,000 to $199,999363
$200,000 to $299,999362
$300,000 to $499,99925
$500,000 to $999,99925
$1,000,000 or more3
We can also look at the number of properties built in a given year to see the spread of property age in the 85363 zip code.
1939 or earlier17
1940 to 194952
1950 to 1959592
1960 to 1969432
1970 to 1979399
1980 to 1989122
1990 to 1999209
2000 to 2009761
2010 to 2013135
2014 or later27
Vehicles Available per Household
Finally, we have data on how many vehicles each household in 85363 has. The table below breaks down the number of vehicles available per household.
No vehicles available340
1 vehicle available844
2 vehicles available941
3 or more vehicles available373
Commuting to Work in 85363
The time and means of commuting to work are useful metrics to look at because they can be correlated against other data such as income and education level.
Does a longer commuting time indicate a higher average income? If so, has the huge increase in home working during the pandemic changed this?
Using these metrics, we can get a better understanding of the demographics of the 85363 zip code, how they commute, and how that correlates to other data points.
The average travel time is 28 minutes, and the chart below covers the range of travel times across the population of 85363.
Less than 5 minutes50
5 to 9 minutes210
10 to 14 minutes229
15 to 19 minutes247
20 to 24 minutes516
25 to 29 minutes196
30 to 34 minutes456
35 to 39 minutes37
40 to 44 minutes151
45 to 59 minutes203
60 to 89 minutes136
90 or more minutes96
We can also look at the means of transport in 85363 to see which modes of transport people are using to commute to work.
Worked from home170
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How to do grid Search to optimize sigma using Matlab?
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I new to SVM, hence, please consider this when you answer the question.
I'm trying to classify IRIS data using matlab. I choose fitcecoc becouse it can classify multiple features and classes.
Next, I need to search for the best value for sigma. My understanding I need to do something called "grid Search". However, I have no clue how to do grid Search using Matlab.
Please, notice since I'm new to Matlab, I might be asking the wrong questions in the first place.
Walter Roberson on 29 Jun 2015
Edited: Walter Roberson on 17 May 2017
firstparam = [1, 2, 3.3, 3.7, 8, 21]; %list of places to search for first parameter
secondparam = linspace(0,1,20); %list of places to search for second parameter
[F,S] = ndgrid(firstparam, secondparam);
fitresult = arrayfun(@(p1,p2) fittingfunction(p1,p2), F, S); %run a fitting on every pair fittingfunction(F(J,K), S(J,K))
[minval, minidx] = min(fitresult);
bestFirst = F(minidx);
bestSecond = S(minidx);
now the fitting was best at values bestFirst and bestSecond
It is common that you have a range of values for each parameter; in that case you use linspace() to sample in-between the range. The number of points you ask for in linspace() determines how fine of a grid you search at.
When you are searching something that should be somewhat smooth, you can use a coarse grid to determine the general area to search and then you can use that to select an area to pay more attention to. I gave an example of code for that in http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/222803-how-to-fit-6-curves-simultaneously-to-solve-for-2-unknowns | <urn:uuid:37dd85a4-10c1-4330-96d3-b203db667e33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/225681-how-to-do-grid-search-to-optimize-sigma-using-matlab | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.837829 | 479 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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More than sixty years ago, the young Viscountess de Ribes, née Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont, stood on the balcony of a friend’s Venetian palazzo. She was twenty-two, and only a few years out of her convent boarding school. The social life of a married woman was still a bit daunting. There was a cool formality to her new husband’s world, and she was intimidated by its sophistication. She was growing into her role as a châtelaine, but running a house wasn’t quite enough for her. So she had started to design her own clothes.
The journey from Paris to Venice then involved a first-class train or a chauffeured car accompanied by a large steamer trunk. Mme. de Ribes needed changes of toilette for every occasion. That afternoon, she was wearing a white piqué waistcoat with a tartan skirt. A stranger admired the outfit, and asked what couturier had made it. “No one whom you would have heard of,” she replied. She didn’t dare tell him that she’d made it herself.
“Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style” is a new show at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum which celebrates the young woman on the balcony and the grande dame she became. Those of an age to remember Grace Kelly’s wedding, Truman Capote’s Black-and-White Ball, and Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink Chanel suit will recall pictures of the Countess in her heyday: vertiginous cheekbones, eyes with a feline slant, the nose of an Egyptian queen. Yves Saint Laurent described her as “an ivory unicorn,” and Richard Avedon photographed her for Vogue. At twenty-eight, she was named to the International Best-Dressed List, and six years later, in 1962, she was inducted into its Hall of Fame. Other members of the pantheon then included Mrs. Kennedy and her sister, Princess Radziwill; Audrey Hepburn (a count’s daughter); Mrs. Gianni Agnelli (a principessa by birth); the Duchess of Windsor; fellow-swans C. Z. Guest and Babe Paley; and, at least ex officio, Queen Elizabeth II. There were no eccentrics and no sexpots. “Good taste without extravagance or ostentation” was, according to the judges, the standard of inclusion.
Mme. de Ribes was born on Bastille Day in 1929, into a family of the _noblesse d’_é__p__é__e, and upon her marriage she entered a house even more Old Guard than her own; her father-in-law once forced her to cancel a dinner party because it fell on the anniversary of Louis XVI’s execution. Babies born on the original Bastille Day, the first generation of Romantics, claimed a revolutionary right: to reinvent themselves. But in some respects, the Countess’s Bastille—a prison of codified behavior—never fell. Harold Koda, who curated the Met show, notes in the catalogue that “the de Ribes family had strict proscriptions on the public and private aspects of their life.” This doesn’t leave many others.
The Countess, now eighty-seven, lives in Paris, and last week I phoned her there. It was late, but we spoke for an hour. “I’m a night owl,” she said. She wasn’t coming to New York, she told me: “I simply can’t face the opening.” Only a few days had passed since the terrorist attacks, and like most of her compatriots she was in mourning. She was also wary of the flashbulbs, the fuss, the apotheosis—“the display of ego.” Dressing was her performance art, and like any virtuoso she knew what feats she could risk without risking self-exposure. I asked de Ribes how her style had evolved. “Very slowly,” she replied. “Style is innate, while confidence isn’t.”
Jacqueline was a dreamy child who spent the happiest years of her girlhood living with her maternal grandparents. (Her father, an Olympic marksman, and her mother, a writer, were not, one infers, dedicated to parenthood.) “I always loved games of dress-up,” she told me. “I loved the room in their house where the maids worked on my grandmother’s couture. I never learned to sew myself, but I absorbed all their techniques. And I used to make costumes of whatever they would lend me—shawls, nightgowns, boas, an old bathrobe. I even borrowed the clothes of my English nanny.”
De Ribes never outgrew her love of improvised finery, or of a grand entrance. She was notorious for arriving hours late at the masked balls that enlivened the social season in the mid-century. Months of planning and millions of dollars went into their preparation; they were, in essence, sartorial tournaments. No one out-jousted de Ribes, and three of her costumes are in the show at the Met. Like Scarlett O’Hara, she used what she had at hand. She took scissors to a lamé evening coat, by Guy Laroche, to make a tunic; she repurposed a chiffon gown, by Jean Dessès, as a flowing veil; she blithely cannibalized a sable cape, a gift from the Marquis de Cuevas, to trim a turban. She also rustled up some discount tulle for the harem pants that completed her outfit. With too much nerve, you are a fashion victim; without enough, you’re a frump. It takes perfect pitch to strike the right note.
Dessès, it happens, was that stranger on the Venetian balcony. He invited de Ribes to his atelier, and he was the first of many masters who dressed her. A discriminating buyer, she often asked for modifications to a design, and had a gift for what Koda calls “fashion collage.” A decade before rich bohemians mixed street or vintage fashion with couture, she threw a puffer coat over her sequins. Dior, under Marc Bohan and Saint Laurent, then Saint Laurent on his own, were her preferred couturiers, partly because they accommodated her change orders. “When I went for a fitting, I would ask the première to modify the proportions, or I proposed a different fabric,” she said. The houses she patronized were happy to oblige her: whatever she wore inspired emulation. “I was always timid about going to Chanel, though,” she said. “I was afraid she wouldn’t agree to my meddling.”
Nearly all of the sixty ensembles at the Met are evening gowns, and their installation is suitably nocturnal: the basement galleries, painted black, have the atmosphere of a glossy boîte. Sadly, the early clothes for which de Ribes earned her entrance to the Hall of Fame are not part of the show. “My husband and I shared a wing of his parents’ mansion,” she explained. “It was a very strict household.” (The old Count de Ribes once objected to receiving the Duke and Duchess of Windsor because she had been divorced.) Her in-laws told her that, if a gown had been sitting in her closet for a few years, she had to give it to charity. So her couture went to the Association d’Entraide de la Noblesse Française, an organization that supported impecunious aristocrats. “In that way, a young girl who could not afford good clothes would have a beautiful dress for her début,” she said. “I was saddest to let go of my Balenciagas. I kept two Diors, but almost nothing else from the fifties or sixties.”
In 1983, some forty years after her encounter with Dessès, the Countess launched her own ready-to-wear business, and it flourished for twelve years. Why, I asked de Ribes, did she wait until middle age to embrace a métier she had always loved? For one thing, she explained, her relations were horrified by the notion of a working woman in the family. “Trade” carried the stigma of commonness. (Under the Bourbons, courtiers were forbidden to practice a profession, other than that of war; they found an outlet, as their scions have, in exclusive sports and refined frivolity.) To some extent, she circumvented the “proscriptions” by doing unpaid creative work. “For two years,” she said, “I wrote a column for Marie-Claire, under a pseudonym. I gave women advice on dressing chicly for a dollar.” She was a patron of the arts, and an impresario who helped with the décor and costumes for theatrical productions. When her friend the Marquis de Cuevas died, in 1961, she managed his ballet company for a few years, “so I had a focus for my energies.” Yet these ephemeral activities left her unsatisfied, and at the age of fifty, fed up with her “lack of courage,” she announced her intention of going pro. Her husband gave his grudging consent, but told her that she was “on her own”—she would have to raise her own capital. And in a long letter, Saint Laurent begged her to reconsider. “He told me I would suffer too much.” | <urn:uuid:18d5f541-f183-48df-a3c5-8982332e3ceb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/haute-ticket-jacqueline-de-ribes-at-the-met | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977979 | 2,117 | 1.625 | 2 |
When a new high-speed railway (HSR) is planned, one of the most important elements to consider in decision making is the economic and social balance of the system. For this purpose, the life cycle cost (LCC) of the principal components is essential. Obviously, the extension of the life cycle for each element is a clear indicator of the total LCC and, in the case of rolling stock, this extension depends on many different factors: type of trains, type of components, type of operation, infrastructure, kind of maintenance and its cost, technology evolution, and so forth.
In Europe, the life cycle for HSR rolling stock has traditionally been considered to be 30 years (probably due to an economic perspective, or as a tradition extrapolated from other types of rolling stock), while in Japan, it is considered to be only 17 years. This large difference in life cycle is based on fatigue of the train’s body shell: The tunnel cross-section for HSR lines (Shinkansen) in Japan is very narrow; consequently, each time a train passes through a gallery, significant compression and decompression is produced. This effect is similar to what occurs in airplanes and requires the pressure inside an airplane cabin to be reduced. The repetition of this cycle hundreds of times a day makes a careful analysis of the fatigue phenomenon necessary in Shinkansen trains, and generally leads to a regular renewal of the fleet.
This continual renewal of the fleet permits an almost continuous incorporation of new technologies, as any possible innovation can be easily incorporated. In addition, it imposes important conditions on the maintenance policy (and consequently on the maintenance cost), such as the general avoidance of large maintenance operations, and so forth. It also requires an accurate investment plan—other than a recycling materials plan, because recycling high-speed (HS) trains for other purposes or for other countries does not yet occur.
In Europe, the main characteristics of the infrastructure and the operation conditions permit a longer life cycle; consequently, rolling stock requires “lifting,” or a thorough overhaul around the middle of its life cycle. As the first HS trains started in Europe in 1981, a significant percentage of the present fleet of European trains is becoming too old. In some cases, such as that of the French railway system, an operation to provide these trains with a complementary life extension is planned, probably to enable them to reach a life cycle of 40 years or even more. In any case, the problem remains of how to face the renewal of the fleet of roughly 100 trains that started operation in 1981, and 110 more trains that started operation in 1989.
Ratios can provide a general idea of the magnitudes involved in this problem. A European manufacturer can supply around 1 or 2 (and, exceptionally, sometimes more) trains per month to a certain operator, including the test and homologation processes. The cost of a typical HS train (200 m, 350-400 seats, 300-330 km•h-1) in Europe represents €30 million-32 million EUR (20 years ago, the cost of a similar train was €22 million EUR). The maintenance cost for one such train operating under typical conditions (roughly 500 000 km per year) can be €1 million-1.2 million EUR per year.
Clearly, some European operators will find that facing the renewal of a significant part of their fleet, while simultaneously previewing an extension of the HS network and HS services, represents an important handicap, especially at a time when competition with other transport modes is increasingly important.
Now consider China’s impressive evolution of HS lines, trains, services, and stations. Chinese railway system actors (operators, industry, and authorities) spent some 15-20 years developing their own concept for HSR and getting their own technology ready. By learning from their own experiences and by bench-marking the experience gained from other HS systems around the world, they created new technologies, new products, and a new concept of the HSR system. Everything was ready when operations began in August of 2008. Today, less than eight years later, more than 21 000 km of new HS lines are in operation at speeds from 200 km•h-1 to 300 km•h-1, and more than 10 000 km of HS lines are under construction.
One of the characteristics of HS rolling stock, compared with other market vehicles, is the relatively low quantity of units that are built in each material series. In comparison, automobile factories produce hundreds of thousands of units, while aircraft manufacturers produce thousands. However, for HSR, a hundred trains represents an enormous quantity of production. Thus, the low quantity of units imposes important restrictions on the design, manufacture, and cost by a different application of the economy of scale.
Chinese railways operate more than 1600 HS train sets, all less than eight years old. Considering what is happening now under similar conditions in Europe (albeit on a different scale), what will happen 30 years from now? HSR lines will be longer, traffic will be significantly greater, and the rolling stock fleet will be much bigger and more solicited—but it will have an age limit. China Railway will then be obliged to renew a 1600 HS train fleet, without the galvanizing euphoria of the “early days.”
The answer to this problem should rest on the main principles of HSR. A focus on service to customers (and society) and on the identification and anticipation of necessities for future performance will be the key elements to take into consideration for planning railway operations. At this point, identifying the actual necessities of equipment, stations, infrastructure, and rolling stock should be the starting point for planning long-term investments.
The technology evolution will play an essential role in this entire process. The Chinese railway sector is in an excellent position to carry out new and impressive developments coming from railway companies, universities, research institutes, and the industry. The carefully planned renewal of this enormous fleet will be an excellent opportunity to incorporate further advancements, update the competitiveness of HSR, and ensure both its survival and its important role in the future transport passengers market. | <urn:uuid:1ea0a07c-b75e-4be7-b438-dbd6ee745a9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.engineering.org.cn/en/10.1016/J.ENG.2016.03.020 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940799 | 1,243 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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Healthcare Inspectorate Wales is committed to the principles of equality, human rights and diversity in all the work we do.
We check how well NHS services meet the Health and Care Standards (2015), and whether independent services are meeting the National Minimum Standards for Independent Healthcare Services in Wales (2011).
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The federal government is ramping up its "no jab, no pay" policy, with new laws to dock welfare payments by $28 a fortnight for parents whose children do not meet immunisation requirements.
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It will replace the existing system under which end-of-year supplements are withheld for children whose immunisation is not up to date.
The cuts over the course of the year equate to the yearly payment, but the government is hopeful the change will give parents an immediate incentive to have their children immunised.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter told parliament, "The government considers there is no excuse for parents who, for no valid medical reason, choose to not immunise their children.
"These parents are not only putting their own children's health at risk but they risk the health of every other child."
Families will be given a 63-day grace period if a child does not meet the requirements.
Immunisation rates have risen nationally since the first no jab no pay measures were introduced in January 2016.
But Cassandra Goldie, CEO at the Australian Council of Social Services, credits another approach.
"GPs are now paid an incentive payment to remind parents to immunise their children," she says.
"We think that actually why we are seeing improved immunisation rates across the country, that is the health approach, we know that GPs are a really important part of the picture and we suspect that's what's working."
As of June, 93.79 of one-year-olds, 90.86 of two-year-olds and 93.55 of five-year-olds were fully immunised.
It still falls short of the 95 per cent herd immunity, the level required to slow or stop the spread of disease.
For some parents, like Mum Cara, reaching that threshhold is important but she says punitive measures aren't a fair approach.
"If you have people who aren't vaccinating, it does affect the health of other kids and it puts vulnerable people at risk.
"But equally to target people who are struggling to make ends meet, is really targeting the wrong people."
Grandfather Albert Hartnett says the new laws target his community.
"There's a good percentage of Aboriginal people on unemployment benefits or some Centrelink benefits," he says.
"The government, when they trial different policies and legislations, they also seem to target the socially disadvantaged."
Human Services Minister Alan Tudge conceded it was much more difficult to coerce wealthier families into vaccinating their kids.
"Obviously we've got one significant lever and that is the welfare dollar and we're utilising that and have been having tremendous impacts," he told Sky News.
"But there's still a little bit to go, which is why Christian Porter has changed the parameters slightly to have a more instantaneous outcome."
The measure will save the government just under $23 million.
The legislation also proposes a number of changes to child support arrangements.
European countries cracking down
Some European countries are also moving toward tougher legislation, many in response to a earlier this year.
Italy passed a law that makes 12 childhood vaccinations mandatory.
In France, as of 2018, will be compulsory and in Germany vaccine-hesitant parents can be fined.
German-born mum Anja Wendt told SBS she's aware of other measures in her home-country.
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Chances are you won’t find the next piece of news in the least bit surprising, if you have been following our regular updates on Britons’ online behaviour. According to a new European poll from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), British consumers top the chart when it comes to Internet adoption and the amount of time spent online.
While roughly two in three Europeans use the Internet, 81% of the UK population goes online, the poll shows. Moreover, Britons spend an average of 16.8 hours per week online, compared to two hours less for European users. According to the IAB, the number of people using the Internet in the UK has increased 11% and the time spent online has grown by 17% over the past two years.
UK consumers also appear to be ahead of their European counterparts in terms of variety of devices used to access the Internet, as more than one in five Britons (21%) go online via a tablet, compared to 8% in Europe. The gap is even wider for Internet access via games consoles, with 21% of UK and 6% of mainland European users going for this option. The IAB also finds that 59% of Britons have a smartphone, while 44% of Europeans own such a device.
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Doctors are urgently warning people in the United Kingdom that 300,000 Brits are living with a “stealth” heart condition that could kill them within five years.
A report by The Sun warned that some 300,000 Brits in the United Kingdom are living with a “stealth” heart disease that could kill them in five years, according to researchers in the UK and Australia.
A third of the people with the mysterious heart disease are “likely to have no idea they are infected because they do not show clear symptoms.”
The disease, aortic valve stenosis (AS) is a heart condition that “often shows no symptoms until it’s already too late.”
From the report:
The condition is when the heart’s aortic valve narrows, reducing or blocking blood flow from the heart into the main artery to the body (aorta).
This can cause chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, or a rapid, fluttering heartbeat in the more severe and life-threatening cases.
Some people are more prone to getting it, including those of older age, with diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart conditions from birth.
Given the aging of the UK population, it is thought that there may be a large pool of as yet undiagnosed people.
Researchers in the UK and Australia set out to estimate how many people could be living with the condition now, and of those, how many are at risk of death.
According to the researchers, 1.5% of people over the age of 55 in the UK at any one time could have severe AS, equal to around 300,000 people.
Just under 200,000 of them were symptomatic, indicating that they had a severe case of the disease and were eligible for surgery.
The remaining 90,000 had a “silent” case and will “probably not be diagnosed” unless they are screened for other issues.
Without timely treatment, researchers say, an estimated 172,859 people will die over the next five years heading into 2024, meaning 35,000 people every year, with 10,000 of those deaths being among 55-64-year-olds.
Studies have shown that people with a severe case of AS who do not get treated with surgery have a 25% chance of dying within the first year after symptoms begin, with the risk increasing to 50% in the second year.
The researchers, led by Geoffrey Strange, a cardiologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, said: “In conclusion, this study suggests that severe [aortic stenosis] is a common condition affecting many individuals within the UK population aged 55 [and older].
“Without appropriate detection and intervention, their survival prospects are likely to be poor.”
The researchers are concerned the NHS will not be able to cope with the wave of older people with aortic disease over the next few years.
The research comes as some remain concerned that myocarditis and other heart conditions known to be side effects of the controversial COVID-19 vaccines are not being taken seriously.
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With the start of the new year, many people have made themselves promises to start new habits. One of the most popular resolutions is going to the gym regularly, even though about 80% of new members end up quitting after just a few months. A few mistakes at the gym can severely hinder your results.
Most gym newbies are making fixable mistakes that discourage them from keeping up with their fitness. If you’re looking to stay active, here’s how you can avoid these rookie mistakes and stay on track toward your fitness goals.
Mistake #5: Too much cardio
Cardio machines are the most self-explanatory pieces of equipment in the gym. Because it’s so user-friendly, most people end up using it too often in their workout routine.
The problem with overdoing it with cardio is that on top of burning fat, you can accidentally cause yourself to burn muscle as well. Gaining muscle requires a specific target heart rate to help you get your best results. If you go over that heart rate, you risk losing excess weight while trying to bulk up.
Mistake #4: Overworking your body
You want to make sure that you’re getting a full-body workout, no matter your fitness goals. Find different days each week to focus on a particular part of your body.
By alternating each body part you’re working on, you also give your body some time to rest and recoup. For every intense session you have at the gym, it’s crucial to also have some downtime.
Mistake #3: Unbalanced diet
How can your body perform at its best if you’re not giving it the fuel it needs to do so? Keep track of your daily eating habits to see what kinds of nutrients you’re taking in.
Everybody’s diet has to be custom to their body type and fitness goals. If you want to get a better idea of ideal diets for your body, check out this link that will help you figure out what you need to be eating.
Mistake #2: Lack of hydration
Many people forget to bring the right amount of water for their workout. Medical professionals suggest that every 10-20 minutes during exercise, you should be drinking between 7-10 ounces of water.
That’s not to mention the water you should be drinking before and after you hit the gym. When dehydrated, you’re more prone to getting cramps and feeling nauseous.
Mistake #1: Poor technique
Having poor technique when you run, squat, lift, or do any other strenuous exercises can be detrimental to your health. Without proper form, you put your body at risk for injuries that prevent you from maintaining an active lifestyle.
Ask your local gym if they offer training to help you learn the right form you need to get fit. Trainers can help you achieve your goals while staying safe at the gym.
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Whether it’s academic achievement or a multi-cultural lifestyle, Canada stands out as a destination for foreign students from all over the world. The country not only has a fantastic infrastructure for higher education, but it also has a superior atmosphere in which to adjust and adapt. As a Filipino student, you may pick from a wide range of courses, do original research, discuss thoughts on current topics in your area, and work fluidly with professors (instructors) to define your professional and personal development in Canada. In this blog, we’ve covered all you need to know about studying in Canada from the Philippines.
This Blog Includes:
- Why Is Canada So Popular Among Filipino Students?
- Popular Intakes in Canada
- Popular Programs in Canada
- Top Universities to Study in Canada
- Popular Universities to Study in Canada
- Cost of Study in Canada
- Cost of Living in Canada
- How to Apply?
- Obtaining a Student Visa for Canada from the Philippines
- Study Permit
- Top Scholarships to Study in Canada for Filipino Students
Why Is Canada So Popular Among Filipino Students?
- First and foremost, it should not be forgotten that the quality of education available in Canada is the fundamental reason for the increase in the number of Filipino students registering for its courses in recent years. Colleges and universities in Canada produce some of the most outstanding graduates in the world. Top academics are attracted to these well-funded, internationally known schools, which provide courses geared to the changing market.
- You may earn while you learn as a Filipino student in Canada. This enables you to pay for university or college while still gaining valuable professional experience. This is not the situation in other nations, which is one of the reasons why so many young people from the Philippines choose to study in Canada.
- While the cost of education in Canada is greater for Filipino and other international students than for Canadian students, it is still competitive when compared to other countries, particularly the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. This is aided by the Canadian Dollar’s current weakness. It is important to know that the costs that foreign students, especially Filipino immigrants, should anticipate bearing will vary depending on the institution or college they attend.
Popular Intakes in Canada
Universities in Canada provide three major entrance points or intakes for applicants to study. Fall, Winter, and Summer are the three seasons. The most popular intake in the country is fall, followed by winter and summer.
|Intakes||Applications Begin||Session Starting Month|
Also Read: Upcoming Intakes in Canada for 2022-2023
Popular Programs in Canada
Over the last decade, there has been a major surge in students who wish to study in Canada from the Philippines. Here are some of the most popular courses in Canada.
- MS in Computer Science
- Masters in Business Analytics
- Masters in Management
- Masters in Finance
- Masters in Data Science
- Masters in Mechanical Engineering
Top Universities to Study in Canada
According to THE Ranking 2022, the best universities in Canada are listed below.
|University||THE Ranking 2022||QA World Ranking 2022|
|University of Toronto||#18||#26|
|University of British Columbia||#37||#46|
|University of Montreal||#88||#111|
|University of Alberta||#125||#126|
|University of Ottawa||#162||#230|
|University of Waterloo||#201 – 250||#149|
|Western University||#201 – 250||#170|
|University of Calagary||#201 – 250||#235|
Popular Universities to Study in Canada
Leverage Edu has helped many students get an offer from their dream universities in Canada. These universities are the most popular ones among international students:
|Toronto School of Management||Toronto|
|Mount Allison University||Sackville|
|St Lawrence College||Kingston|
Cost of Study in Canada
The cost of tuition varies by the university in Canada. A list of average tuition fees for various programs in Canada is shown below.
|Program||Average Annual Fees (in CAD)|
|Bachelors||1,800 – 20,000 (PHP 71191.01 – 798403.83)|
|Masters||2,500 – 17,000 (PHP 98469.81 – 665336.53)|
|PhD||2,500 – 17,000 (PHP 98469.81 – 665336.53)|
|Vocational||2,000 – 18,000 (PHP 79175.05- 717232.78)|
|Language Courses||3,500 – 4,100 (PHP 138390.00 – 162342.11)|
Cost of Living in Canada
The following are the monthly costs of living in some of Canada’s most popular cities for studying:
|City||Average Monthly Cost of Living (in CAD)|
|Vancouver||2,350 (PHP 93128)|
|Winnipeg||1,770 (PHP 70143)|
|Lethbridge||1,680 (PHP 66576)|
|Kingston||1,385 (PHP 54886)|
|Montreal||1,970 (PHP 78069)|
|Toronto||2,245 (PHP 88967)|
How to Apply?
To begin the admissions process, you must follow a set of step-by-step instructions to ensure that you do not miss anything while submitting your application. The following guidelines go over the most important things to remember while intending to study in Canada.
- Explore the certificate and degree programs available in your subject of interest, as well as the colleges that provide them.
- Applying to study in Canada may be a time-consuming process, so get started on your application as soon as feasible. Transcripts and mark sheets from your academic records, language proficiency tests (IELTS Score for Canada), letters of recommendation (LOR), and a Statement of Purpose (SOP) are just a few of the fundamental application requirements.
- Check the university’s official website for eligibility criteria once you’ve chosen the proper subject. Academic-related specifications, criteria connected to job experience, information about the intake, and so on are some of the most important things to ensure.
- The admission process for major institutions in Canada is done entirely online, with candidates filling out personal and academic information, submitting needed papers, and paying the application price.
- After all that you can begin preparing your visa application after your candidature has been accepted by the institution. It usually takes roughly 60 days and requires several pieces of paperwork, so you should start your visa application as soon as possible.
Obtaining a Student Visa for Canada from the Philippines
A Canadian study permit is a document provided by the Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to someone who wishes to study or continue their studies in Canada. As a Filipino student you must meet the following requirements to be eligible for a study visa in Canada:
- Get an admission letter from a designated learning institution (DLI)
- Demonstrate sufficient means to pay the first year’s tuition, living expenses, and return transportation.
- Convince Canadian immigration officials that they would depart Canada after the study permit’s permitted time
- Be eligible to enter Canada (police checks and/or a medical exam may be required)
Students from the Philippines can work and study in Canada easily and quickly. They only need to enrol in the Student Direct Stream (SDS). The SDS is essentially a technique for expediting and reducing documentary requirements for study visa applications. In the Philippines, students can get a study permit in as short as 30 days. They can also present financial capability documentation that is less extensive. Filipinos, on the other hand, are required to submit or perform the following:
- Proof of a language test form with an IELTS band of at least 6 for English (IELTS) or a Niveaux de Compétence Linguistique Canadiens score of at least 7
- A CAD 10,000 (396292.40 PHP) Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC)
- Payment of tuition during the first year of study
- A first medical evaluation is required
- Acceptance letter from a publicly financed Canadian institution.
Top Scholarships to Study in Canada for Filipino Students
Universities in Canada provide a range of scholarships to students from the Philippines. Scholarships, student loans, and other types of financial assistance are also available. The Top Scholarships for Filipino Students to Study in Canada are listed below:
|Lester B. Pearson International Scholarship Program||For four academic years, this scholarship covers the full cost of tuition, books, and full residential assistance.|
|Humber College International Entrance Scholarships||The amount fluctuates depending on each student’s academic performance. For example, students with a score of 85 to 89.9% will receive a scholarship of CAD 3000 (PHP 118887). Similarly, the price varies for scores between 75 and 95%.|
|Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship||The scholarship is valued at around CAD 50,000 (PHP 1981463) each year for three academic years.|
|Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarships||Each year for three academic years, a total of CAD 40,000 (PHP 1585170) is provided to cover tuition and living expenses.|
|International students can apply for PEO International Peace Scholarships (Women)||This prize is valued at around CAD 12,500 (PHP 495365) in total, which may include tuition exemptions, teaching assistantships, and study scholarships.|
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The PSG Final Event #parentsdoscience
Parenting Science Gang is funded by Wellcome for a two year period and we’re coming towards the end of our project.
Over the last 21 months, our 2000+ citizen scientists have achieved amazing things. They’ve created 7 novel research studies, helped researchers develop their plans for a longitudinal study into the microbiome and quizzed around 80 experts in our online Q&As!
So last month, we invited around 30 PSGers, representing our 8 groups, along with some of their children and family members, to York to celebrate what they’ve achieved, share it with other PSG members and the wider scientific community, and have a think about what happens next.
The weekend was absolutely buzzing – you can see some of what was shared by looking for #parentsdoscience on Twitter. Or, take a look at:
What does it feel like to be a PSG member?
What do citizen scientists think about?
What do parent citizen scientists want to do?
Since our last newsletter, Science-Aware Natural Parenting (SANP) PSG have presented their work at the Midlands Baby Carrying Convention in Coventry and have been invited to present to the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. Their collaborating scientist, Dr Davide Filingeri (Loughborough) also presented the findings at the International Conference on the Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation in Croatia in October.
Dumfries and Galloway Bumps Babies & Beyond (DGBBB) PSG has completed their research and are busy writing up a report on flexi-schooling (part time school, part time home-education) in Scotland. They’re hoping to publish in the new year – watch this space!
Some members of our Breastfeeding Older Babies and Beyond (BOBAB) and UK Breastfeeding and Parent Support (UKBAPS) PSG groups got to meet with Dr Simon Cameron (Imperial) at our Final Event last month. It has been fantastic to hear how our collaboration has inspired such great interest in the science of breast milk for Simon and his team; the data set from our donations is enormous and they will continue to work on it in the future. The initial analysis is now complete and the whole group will have an opportunity to chat with Simon about it soon.
Big Birthas (BB) PSG decided they wanted to look into what effect the choices given to mothers with a high BMI had on their pregnancies. They invited mothers to answer 8 questions by email about their experiences and feelings about choice. They had about 20 responses and are using thematic analysis to look at them. The volunteer analysts have gone through most of the interviews and “coded” them i.e. pulled out evidence where they support the same ideas. Some analysts found reading the responses more harrowing than they anticipated. The group are aiming to have their analysis complete and written up by Christmas so they can share it in the new year!
Breastfeeding and Health Care Experiences (BF HCE) PSG have had a phenomenal response to their infant feeding survey – around 750 women submitted their stories. Which means that Dr Gavin Brookes (Lancaster) has around 260,000 words to run through his Corpus Linguistics software which will identify the most frequent language patterns in the data. Analysts from BF HCE PSG will then use thematic analysis to pull out the key themes. This is going to be an iterative process and the group will share the results in the new year.
Gavin said “Parenting Science Gang have designed an effective and comprehensive survey tool to capture – in great detail – mothers’ experiences of breastfeeding in the UK. Now, thanks to the contribution of an impressive number of enthusiastic respondents, PSG has at its disposal what promises to be a rich and insightful collection of breastfeeding stories which give voice to the perspectives of mothers across the UK and promises to illuminate key breastfeeding experiences and concerns. In any other circumstance, it would be possible to write an entire PhD – and perhaps even a book! – about this exciting and wonderful resource.”
Meanwhile, the same group has collected in-depth interviews with healthcare professionals, reflecting on how their own breastfeeding experience has affected their professional practice and our willing volunteers are coding the transcripts under the guidance of Dr Yan-Shing Chang (King’s College London). At this early stage, we’re excited to see that there may be similar and interesting themes emerging from both these studies. That’s all we can say right now… watch this space!
The Mealtime Hostage (MH) PSG great feeding survey closed on 26th October. The study looks at children’s eating behaviour, and particularly what makes children more or less likely to have feeding difficulties. While ploughing through the wealth of data, Dr Terry Dovey (Brunel) said “So much to do, but I am excited now with this data and I think we have a real great dataset. Potentially the best one I have ever seen on this topic.” Our citizen scientists are now looking through the data pulling out questions for further analysis.
We think Prof. Jackie Blissett (Aston) sums it up nicely: “what a treasure trove of data!”.
The PSG Books study designed by our group of Let Toys Be Toys supporters (LTBT-PSG) went live late last week and saw over 200 people complete the questionnaire for parents within 24 hours! This research is looking at whether books have an effect on the social attitudes of young children. Parents will read an allocated book to their children at least 3 times a week over a 5 week period, completing a questionnaire before and after this intervention period with their child.
There may just be a couple of spaces left – take a look if you’re interested in taking part or finding out more.
Asking the experts
We’ve had around 80 Q&As and they’re all available on our website. Here are a few of our recent highlights.
- Long term health of picky eaters – Dr Caroline Taylor
- Father’s mental health in pregnancy and afterwards – Dr Zoe Darwin
- Gestational weight gain – Hannah Hartley
- Toddler maths – Dr Vic Simms
- Thematic Analysis 101 – Nicky Human
- Vexing Vegetables with Dr Helen Coulthard
Want to get involved?
Our project may be drawing to a close, but our parent citizen scientists are still full of questions and we’ve still got time for a few more Q&As. If you’re an expert in any area of parenting or child development and would like to get involved, please contact us.
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Chinesepod's Carlie discusses the meaning of the name 'Huawei' in light of the recent national security concerns of the Whitehouse
A temporary restraining order was placed on the publication of "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye," by Fedrik Colting. A U.S. federal judge placed the restraining order because the book, scheduled to be released in September, didn't receive J. D. Salinger's permission to be published. Salinger is the author of the famous book, "The Catcher in the Rye."
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the restraining order was placed so that the judge could carefully examine the copyright law. The new book is similar to the original, but, according to Colting's lawyer, there "is no substantial similarity."
The new book is about an older version of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in "Catcher in the Rye," Upi.com reports. According to the New York Times, the courts decision of publication of books is determined on whether the new work has significantly changed so much so to add new meaning.
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XB-ART-58652Dev Biol January 1, 2022; 482 1-6.
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The role of Xenopus developmental biology in unraveling Wnt signalling and antero-posterior axis formation.
Wnt signalling plays an eminent role in development, stem cell growth, and tissue homeostasis. Much of what we know about Wnt signalling, we owe to research in developmental biology. Here I review some salient discoveries in the older literature, beginning with the Lithium experiments in sea urchin by Curt Herbst in the 1890ies, when unknown to him he observed the gradual effects of Wnt overactivation upon embryonic axis formation. After revisiting key discoveries into Wingless signalling in Drosophila, I examine the role that the Xenopus embryo has played as model system in this regard. Not only were components of the Wnt cascade dissected and secreted Wnt antagonists discovered in Xenopus, but it also played a key role in unveiling the evolutionary conserved role of Wnt signalling in primary body axis formation. I conclude that Xenopus developmental biology has played a major role in elucidating the mechanisms of embryonic Wnt signalling.
PubMed ID: 34818531
Article link: Dev Biol
Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: axin2 ctnnb1 dkk1 dkk2 gsk3a hwa lef1 lrp6 wnt1 wnt11 wnt8a
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Women Veterans in Politics - Made to be Leaders
In spite of the fact that the federal government provides a variety of services for veteran assistance during transition and readjustment after military service has ended, women veterans face serious gaps and challenges in the existing Veterans benefits offered. As women veterans in politics become more commonplace and even acceptable at every level, the opportunities to change the status quo and remove these obstacles will also increase.
Female veterans generally face more challenges during this time than males do, and there are obstacles that impede a successful transition to civilian life for these veterans. One recent study found that women veterans tend to experience unemployment rates that are stubbornly high after leaving military service, and this factor is a known precursor to poverty and financial struggles.
Women Veterans in Politics
A special report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determined that an estimated 10 percent of female veterans in the USA live at or below the poverty level, and that 1 in 5 veterans who are between the ages of 17 and 24 years old are impoverished. This is not acceptable, but until more women veterans are part of the political system change will be slow to come.
Women veterans in large numbers struggle to find and afford childcare, veteran housing often restricts or completely prohibits children in available housing units, and the unique health needs that women have are not being addressed by the current veteran healthcare system in place. For too long the face of veterans was exclusively male but that is changing.
How can Women Veterans in Politics make a difference and become Involved?
There are many ways that women veterans can get involved in politics, and many levels that they can choose from. Local political campaigns, government groups, school boards, and other community activities with a political aspect can be a stepping stone for women veterans to get involved and engaged in the political process.
There are many helpful guides, like this one from WikkiHow, that can help women veterans who are interested in politics get involved.
Ways for Women Veterans to become Involved.
Go to Local Political Meetings- Political meetings for a party can help women veterans meet the political leaders and players in their local community, and help identify the specific issues and problems that the community faces.
Run for a Position on a Local School Board- As a school board member women veterans can gain experience in the political process while still working on a small community scale. Since many women who have served in the military have children this can be a great way to get involved in the local community and politics at the same time.
Volunteer at Party Headquarters- Women veterans who are interested in possibly running for office in the future or who just want to understand the way politics work can volunteer at party headquarters. This can be an invaluable learning experience in politics and help the individual network with like-minded people.
Become a Campaign Volunteer- Contact a local candidate and volunteer for campaign work. Women veterans can benefit from helping others and a sense of community, and this step does not require any political experience at all. Most campaigns are always in need of good volunteers. Seeing a campaign from the inside gives a great insight for those considering joining the ranks of women veterans in politics.
Join an Existing Political Organization- There are a number of good political organizations that women veterans can join based on the preferred party and political ideology. Young Republicans, Young Democrats, and many other political organizations are always looking for new members.
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I hear a lot of talk about knitting stars (celebrities), but it’s geometric stars that I’m talking about today. A few years ago, when I just couldn’t stop knitting hexagons and pentagons, I expanded my explorations to include 3-D shapes. Celestine is made of 10 pentagons all knit on to each other forming a dodecahedron. Then, there’s a twist, the triangular sides of each pentagon have been elongated, so it’s a stellated dodecahedron. It’s a star. If you put few straight rows between the decrease rows you can make a soccer ball shape (well, almost, soccer balls actually have mostly hexagons, but that’s another story). If you put more rows in-between the dec rows, your star will have longer points. Here it is shown as a tree topper. I under-stuffed one point so it could be inverted to help it stay on the tree.
I think more knitters have made them as toys. Here is a link to the 467 projects in Ravelry and here are 434 more, files as Celestine Sox. I love that you can make so many different versions from the same pattern. We have a crocheted version, too.
Celestine Sox, Celestine Crochet
Our free pattern Starlet, is made by working a pentagon from the outside edge in and then picking up around each ‘finger” and working outward to form the points. I was thinking “starfish” when I knit Starlet, and then I realized that it would make a great ring holder.
And while I’m at it, I have to mention Bright Star, a garter stitch throw inspired by patchwork quilts. Simple garter stitch squares are sewn together to form a star pattern that looks almost 3D when you use two shades of the same color to form the star motif.
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We have a good childcare service in Asker with many skilled and committed staff working day and night to provide the best possible service, but a comprehensive audit report recently submitted to the city council shows us politicians that all is not well.
The report cites four specific factors, which together are seen as a risk that the supply is unequal in the entire municipality, and as a risk that children in the municipality will not receive the right help at the right time.
In short, there are a large number of severe deadlines and appointments, a lack of capacity and the challenges of cooperating with other municipal services.
The quality of the municipality must be measured by our ability and willingness to take care of our children and give them good conditions for growth.
It is first and foremost a parent’s responsibility, but adult health or their lack of life skills can make nursing homes difficult. This is why it is so important that we as a municipality look at job opportunities across service areas for the benefit of our citizens.
Therefore, a good child care service also relates to the extent to which the service cooperates with other municipal services, such as the child and family service, school and kindergarten, health and care.
A child care lab is a method we should also look at in child care, where the user is placed at the center and the municipality organizes itself around the user with all related and collaborative services, rather than the user having to deal with different services.
On the basis of its findings, the audit report raises questions about both the dimensions and organization of Asker’s child care service, which is partly an administrative responsibility, but also a political one.
Therefore, the municipal council requested the municipality director to include in the municipality’s action plan to prevent neglect and behavioral problems a statement of actions aimed at improving the health and living conditions of children and parents/guardians.
The Municipal Council also stressed that greater emphasis should be placed on cooperation across the areas of service, care, upbringing and the Navy.
A case submission was also requested in order to improve case reporting and establish user councils in the child care service.
In addition, the Municipal Director has already implemented a number of actions based on the results presented in the report. Politically, we will also follow further guidance where this is normal and necessary. We are not happy until all the children in Askar get the help they need.
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Background:Malaria and Hepatitis B virus (HBV) are among the most common infectious diseases in Nigeria and other developing countries. Their high prevalence as mono-infections brings to the fore their infectious ability as co-infections.
Objectives:This study was undertaken to assess the prevalence and effect of HBV and malaria infections on the liver function and hematological parameters in a cohort of subjects both as mono-infections and as co-infections.
Methods:Blood samples from 200 febrile patients were collected and analyzed for the presence of HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) and malaria infection. Hematological parameters and liver function tests such as bilirubin, albumin, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) were carried using automated systems. Malaria parasite test was carried out using CareStart TM while HBsAg detection was done using MonolisaTM immunoassay. Descriptive statistics were carried out to ascertain the relationship between the prevalence of the infections and these parameters.
Results:62 (31.0%) subjects were positive for malaria parasite infection while 138 (69%) were negative. There were no significant changes in the hematological parameters of the subjects with respect to the prevalence of malaria. In addition, 38 (19.0%) subjects were found to be positive for HBsAg and 162 (81.0%) were negative. Of all the liver function tests carried out, only alkaline phosphate was found to be significantly affected (P value = 0.003) by the prevalence of HBsAg. The results further revealed that co-infection among the subjects significantly affected the hematological parameters such as Neutrophils (P value = 0.0134), lymphocytes (P value = 0.0002), eosinophils (P value = 0.0367), and white blood cells (P value = 0.01), as well as liver function indices such as ALT (P value = 0.001), ALP (P value = 0.001), bilirubin (P value = 0.01), and conjugated bile (P value = 0.021).
Conclusions:Individuals with HBV and malaria co-infection tend to have a higher level of changes in their disease conditions compared to those with mono-infections. Hence, there is a need for continuous monitoring of individuals presenting with febrile illnesses in the areas where HBV and malaria infections are co-endemic.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and malaria infections are endemic in most parts of Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa (1). HBV causes infectious diseases resulting in liver conditions that could be of immense danger to human health (2). HBV is known to infect about 2 billion persons across the globe with about 280 million chronic carriers of the virus (2). While HBV infection could sometimes be asymptomatic and transient in most individuals, it can cause short-term illnesses in some people and result in chronic infections in others (3). Malaria is another infectious disease plaguing developing countries and Sub-Saharan Africa. About 212 million cases and 429000 deaths occurred in 2015 alone because of malaria (4).
In Nigeria, HBV is prevalent and widespread as about 75% of the total population is exposed to it. Various reports have shown different prevalence rates of HBV among different Nigerian populations. Emechebe et al. (5) reported a prevalence rate of 10-15% among a cohort of average risk Nigerians. Sadoh and Sadog (6) reported a prevalence of 16.3% and Mbaawuaga et al. (7) reported a prevalence of 11% among a group of pregnant women. In addition, Kolawole et al. (8) reported a prevalence rate of 16.5% among a cohort of pregnant women in Oshogbo, Nigeria. Risk factors for HBV infection acquisition include contact with contaminated blood, body piercing, indiscriminate percutaneous drug use, and acupuncture (2, 9-11).
Malaria is endemic in Nigeria with the disease accounting for about 60% of outpatient visits to clinics and health facilities. 132 billion Naira is said to be lost annually in Nigeria because of malaria (12). The presence of malaria has been shown to be a risk factor contributing to the prevalence of other infections or diseases (13). The presence of HBV and malaria co-infection is usually predominant in areas where both infections are endemic as mono-infection (14). HBV and malaria are known to share some of their developmental stages in the liver, which has sometimes been attributed to the poor clearance of the liver stage of the malaria parasite (15).
Co-infection of Malaria and HBV may occur in areas where both infections are endemic and because of their geographical coincidence (14, 16). These two infections share some of their developmental stages within the liver, which may cause an impaired clearance of the liver stages of Malaria parasite due to hepatocytes damage in HBV infection (15, 17). Individually, malaria parasite infection causes changes in hematological parameters while HBV infection causes changes in liver function indices. Despite that, a few kinds of literature have studied the effect of HBV and malaria co-infection in a cohort of the subject. This study thus aimed to establish if any, significant changes in the liver function indices and hematological parameters in a cohort of subjects, both as mono-infection and as co-infection.
2.1. Study Design
This was a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out among a cohort of febrile subjects, attending General and Specialist Hospitals in Ilorin Kwara state, above the age of 17 years who gave their consent to participate in the study. A structured closed-ended questionnaire was administered to these subjects after an informed consent form had been filled, followed by the collection of blood samples.
2.2. Study Population
Subjects were recruited randomly from a cohort of febrile patients attending the study hospitals. As part of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, subjects recruited had not been tested for HBV in the past.
2.3. Study Site
This study was conducted in three different areas of Ilorin that were East, West, and South, Kwara State, Nigeria.
2.4. Ethical Consideration
Approval for the study was obtained from the Ethical Review Committee of the Ministry of Health, Ilorin after which, informed consent was obtained from the subjects. The study was done at no financial cost to the subjects, and information of the subjects was kept confidential.
2.5. Serum/Plasma Collection and Storage
Patients were bled from the antecubital vein using 5 mL syringes. Three (3) mL of blood was transferred into clean dry bottles, allowed to clot, and centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 5 min. The supernatant (serum) was then collected and kept in clean, dry cryo bottles and stored in a deep freezer at -70 °C. It was removed only when needed. 2 mL of blood was poured into EDTA bottles, mixed to avoid clotting, and used for Malaria parasites and Full blood count.
2.6. Determination of Hematological Parameters and Liver Function Indices
While hematological parameters were analyzed as described by Kolawole et al. (8) using an automated analyzer, liver function tests such as bilirubin, albumin, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) were carried using an automated analyzer and kits from Inteco Diagnostics UK LTD.
2.7. Determination of Malaria Parasite
CareStart TM Malaria HRP (pf) with a sensitivity and specificity of 95% was used for the rapid qualitative detection of malaria HRP2 (Histidine-rich protein 2) in human blood as an aid in the diagnosis of malaria Plasmodium falciparum infection. The test procedure was made using blood samples from EDTA bottles where five microliters (5µL) of blood was added into the “S” well and 3 drops of assay buffer solution added into the “A” well. A start timer was set for 20 min and results were read visually.
2.8. Test for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg)
Serum samples kept in a freezer at -70°C were thawed at room temperature for 20 min before the assay procedure. Serum samples for study participants were screened for HBsAg using a MonolisaTM HBsAg ULTRA kit (with a specificity of 99.28% and sensitivity of 100%) by the Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA) technique. This technique is a qualitative one-step enzyme immunoassay based on the principle of “sandwich” type using monoclonal antibodies and polyclonal antibodies selected for their ability to bind themselves to the various subtypes of HBsAg. The cut-off (CO) value was determined with the negative control, by calculating the mean measured absorbance value for the four negative controls. The cut-off value becomes the mean of negative control +0.050. The presence or absence of HBsAg was determined by comparing the registered absorbance to the calculated cut-off value for each sample.
Ratio = OD of the Sample / CO Value
Samples with an optical density (OD) value lower than the cut-off value were considered negative (ratio < 1) by MonolisaTM HBsAg ULTRA.
2.9. Data Analysis
Descriptive analysis using SPSS 21 was used to describe the mean, frequency, standard deviation, standard error, correlation, and percentage. Graphs and chats were also used in order to have a lucid representation of data.
The results showed a higher percentage of the subjects (85, 42.5%) was between the ages of 18 and 25 years (Figure 1). 132 (66.0%) subjects were married, 67 (33.5%) were single, and only one (0.5%) subject was divorced. The gender distribution of the subjects revealed that the female gender group had a frequency of 128 (64%) while the male gender comprised 72 (36.0%) of the sample. Most of the respondents had tertiary education (99, 49.5%) while those without formal education had the least record of 13 (6.5%). The respondents with secondary and primary education were 60 (30.0%) and 28 (14.0%), respectively. The demographic information about the occupation of the respondents revealed that most of them were students 57 (28.5%). This was closely followed by the civil servants (55, 27.5%) and Traders (50, 25.0%) category. The least respondents were recorded within the group with other forms of occupation (38, 19.0%).
The results of this study showed that 62 (31.0%) subjects were positive for malaria parasite infection while 138 (69%) were negative. Hematological parameters of the subjects in relation to the prevalence of Malaria are shown in Table 1. It was revealed that there were no significant changes in the hematological parameters of the subjects with respect to the prevalence of malaria. 38 (19.0%) subjects were found to be positive for HBsAg while 162 (81.0%) were negative. Liver function indices of the subjects with respect to the prevalence of HBsAg are shown in Table 2. Of all the liver function tests carried out, only alkaline phosphate was found to be significantly affected (P value = 0.003) by the prevalence of HBsAg. Co-infection of HBV and malaria was found among 11 subjects accounting for 5.5% of the study population. Tables 3 and 4 show the relationship between the prevalence of HBV and malaria co-infection with respect to their hematological and liver function parameters, respectively.
|Hematological Parameter||Positive for Malaria||Negative for Malaria||X2 (df)||P Valuea|
|Packed cell volume (PCV)||0.988 (1)||0.320|
|White blood cell||5.998 (2)||0.05|
|Positive for HBsAg||Negative for HBsAg||X2 (df)||P Valuea|
|Alanine transaminase (ALT)||2.159 (1)||0.142|
|AS transaminase (AST)||0.491 (1)||0.484|
|Alkaline phosphate (ALP)||11.848 (2)||0.003|
|Conjugated bile||2.2 (2)||0.3329|
|Positive for Malaria and HBsAg||Negative for Malaria and HBsAg||X2 (df)||P Valuea|
|Packed cell volume (PCV)||0.681 (1)||0.409|
|White blood cell||9.297 (2)||0.010|
|Positive for Malaria and HBsAg||Negative for Malaria and HBsAg||X2 (df)||P Valuea|
|Alanine transaminase (ALT)||22.21 (1)||0.001|
|AS transaminase (AST)||0.516 (1)||0.473|
|Alkaline phosphate (ALP)||35.31 (2)||0.001|
|Conjugated Bile||7.701 (2)||0.021|
Hepatitis B virus has been implicated largely in cases of liver diseases, resulting in lots of deaths worldwide. It is a major cause of chronic liver disease and hepatitis, with chronic hepatitis accounting for 620000 deaths per year (18). In addition, the presence of malaria and HBV co-infection has been known to influence the progression of either malaria, hepatitis, or both diseases (15). The results of this study clearly showed that young adults between the ages of 18 - 26 years participated most in this study. The socio-demographic characteristics of the study population were as seen in similar settings where the study was carried out. While females were more frequent (128, 64%), the educational level of the respondents varied across the different age groups. Similar results were shown by Udeze et al. (9).
Hematological changes are a key feature of malaria infections (19). Various hematological abnormalities have been duly linked to the prevalence of malaria. They include Leucopenia, Neutropenia, Eosinophilia, leucocytosis, and Neutrophilia (20). The results of this study showed that the presence of malaria mono-infection in the respondents did not affect the majority of the hematological parameters evaluated. Although 44 out of the 62 subjects positive for malaria had low PCV, there was no statistical significance between the presence of malaria as mono-infection and the PCV of the subjects. The same was applicable for neutrophil, lymphocyte, eosinophils, white blood cells, and monocyte levels of the respondents. Lower neutrophil and leukocyte counts are usually indicative of leucopenia (21) but this was not found in this study among subjects with malaria mono-infection. Leucopenia occurs because of the localization of leucocytes away from the peripheral circulation, marginal pools, and splenic sequestration (22). Tchinda et al. (23) in their study of the impact of malaria on hematological parameters in people living with HIV/AIDS attending the Laquintinie Hospital in Douala discovered that the presence of malaria in the subjects did not significantly affect the hematological parameters of the subjects. However, Kotepui et al. (24) affirm that malaria infection affected significantly hematological parameters of their study population.
The results of this study further showed that individuals that were seropositive for HBV antigen mono-infection did not have major changes in their liver function indices. No significant difference was found between the prevalence of HBV and changes in the levels of ALT and AST among the subjects. However, a significant difference was found between the level of alkaline phosphate and the prevalence of subjects who were positive for HBV. In addition, no significant changes were found in the subjects’ bilirubin and conjugated bile concerning the prevalence of HBV. Contrary to this study, Du et al. (25) showed a significant change in bilirubin level among a cohort of Chinese subjects. The high level of liver bilirubin is usually associated with liver injury (25). In addition, Dixit et al. (26) showed significant changes in liver function indices among subjects with hepatitis B virus infection. However, these subjects had chronic hepatitis B virus infection albeit asymptomatic. Liver function test (LFT) abnormalities have been shown to occur in Nigeria in subjects with chronic liver disease or with liver infection occurring as a co-infection with other diseases.
HBV and malaria co-infection are co-endemic in Nigeria and most other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (27). In this study, a 31% malaria prevalence rate was found among the subjects, with 38% of the subject positive for HBV antigen. 5.5% of the subjects had HBV and malaria co-infection. Some studies have shown the co-infection prevalence of HBV and malaria among various subjects. Omalu et al. (28) recorded a co-infection prevalence rate of 7.8% among a group of pregnant Nigerian women and a 1.8% co-infection rate was found in a cohort study in Brazil by Braga et al. (29). In a similar study by Dabo et al. (27) in Kano, an HBV malaria co-infection rate was reported.
The presence of HBV and malaria co-infection among subjects in this study significantly affected not only the hematological parameters of the subjects but also their liver function indices. Hematological parameters that were hitherto not influenced by the presence of malaria as a mono-infection were largely affected in subjects with HBV and malaria co-infection. Similarly, there were significant changes in the liver function test of subjects with HBV and malaria co-infection compared to subjects with HBV mono-infection. The levels of ALT, bilirubin, and conjugated bile that were not significantly affected by the presence of HBV as a mono-infection became significantly influenced in subjects with HBV and malaria co-infection. The result of this study is supported by the work of Mazie et al. (30), who showed the presence of HBV could significantly negatively affect the prognosis of malaria infection. This is contrary to the results reported by Dabo et al. (27) who showed reduced parasitaemia among subjects with HBV and malaria co-infection. They opined that the increased level of Interferon gamma (IFN), which is often released during an HBV infection, could lead to a reduction in malaria parasite load, resulting in a reduction in the severity of malaria infection. However, Freimanis (14) indicated that the presence of HBV and malaria as a co-infection did not significantly affect the prognosis of either infection. Although Sharif et al. (1) in their study of a cohort of subjects in Kano, Nigeria, showed a 9.0% co-infection prevalence rate of HBV and malaria and changes in AST and ALT, there was no direct comparison using these parameters on subjects with mono or co-infections.
The results from this study clearly negate theories that have suggested the presence of HBV and malaria as a co-infection reduces the severity of HBV and malaria as mono-infections (1). Subjects with co-infection of HBV and malaria as seen in this study are at a higher risk of experiencing liver dysfunction, compared to those with mono-infections.
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There is not any reason you should keep putting it off. Although you may have bad connotations with the word, you can change your perception on it today. These sort of negative feelings must be done away so you can begin to enjoy a healthy new body. This article can help you do that.
By adding variety to one’s routine, the body will receive maximum benefits. If someone normally exercises on a treadmill, they can go running around their neighborhood. The body will experience different things when going up a hill or running on various terrains. Variety helps your body use more muscles.
Make sure to keep good variety in the exercises of your fitness routine. That way, you won’t get bored and decide to skip a workout. Once your muscles get used to a certain type of exercise, you’ll stop reaping the benefits from that routine.
Try exercising during TV shoes to keep yourself going. Develop an exercise break during your show, or just stand up and move around in place when a commercial comes on. Try small weight training as you sit on the couch. Get in the mindset that any time is a good time to exercise.
Develop a fitness log that lists the exercises that you completed throughout your day. Use it to keep track of each type of exercise you do and the length of time for each. Buy a pedometer and look to see how many steps you take during the day; write that down, too. When you write down what you do daily, it helps you see see how well you are progressing so that you know if you need to step it up or not, and it helps to keep you motivated.
Although treadmills are a great workout option, it may be better to run outside. Running on paved surfaces is better than a treadmill.
Block off a few minutes daily in your schedule for exercise. Even minor changes like taking the stairs at work instead of escalators and elevators can mean huge strides in health improvement over time.
Clean all the equipment at the fitness center before you start using it. Someone who used the equipment before you might have had a cold, or might have left unhealthy bacteria behind. You’re going to workout and not become sick.
Improve your volleyball contact skills. Playing foosball will actually help improve your volleyball skills. You need great hand-to-eye coordination to win at foosball. Spending time practicing your hand-eye skills while playing foosball will pay off during your next volleyball game.
As long as you were able to apply these tips to your own situation you are ready to begin becoming the healthy person you always wanted to be. You will not only live longer but will live a higher-quality, happier life.
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Whether you’re lacing up your shoes for the first time or trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon, there isn’t a runner who doesn’t want to be a better version of themselves tomorrow than they were today. Here are six tried-and-true tips for continual improvement.
1. Run with purpose!
Purpose fuels performance, regardless of what the latter term means for you. Purpose can come in the form of measurable goals—i.e., finishing your first half marathon, setting a 10K personal best or placing in your age-group—or it can be more inspirational in nature, such as helping a friend adopt a more healthy lifestyle, raising money for a meaningful charity or bringing awareness to an important cause. Whatever your purpose is, identify it and remind yourself of it often—it will ignite your running!
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2. Find a friend. Or several.
Making improvements on your own can be hard to come by but training with a friend (or group of friends) can spur big(ger) gains. Find a training training partner(s) to chase around during long runs and key workouts. Doing so will keep you honest and help you to push a little bit harder when you might be otherwise tempted to back off. On the flip side, a good training partner will also help slow you down on recovery days (more on this in a bit) when you might otherwise be tempted to run a little too fast.
3. Run more.
If you’re currently running two days a week, start trying for three. Or better yet, four. Why? The body craves consistency. Running more frequently will send a message to your body that it needs to adapt to the stresses being placed upon it. As such, it will get more resilient. You will get more efficient. And faster. Heck, you’ll probably start enjoying running more than you already do. There’s no magic number of days that everyone should run, but for most of us, we’d likely benefit from running a little more than we are right now.
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4. Run faster—and slow down!
Yes, these two instructions contradict each other at first glance but one of the biggest keys to improving as a runner is running at the right—and varied—intensities. To get faster, you need to run fast. One to two days a week, get out of your comfort zone and do a speed workout, whether it’s intervals, hill repeats or a tempo run. Your speed—and ability to hold that speed—will improve. On the other days, slow it down. In my experience coaching age-group athletes, perhaps the biggest reason for stalled improvement is running too fast on days when you should be absorbing the fruits of your harder efforts. How easy is easy? It depends, but I tell my athletes to start running at a pace that feels “easy” and then slow it down another notch. If we have to put a number on it, your recovery runs should be at least 90 seconds per mile slower than your current race 5K pace.
READ MORE: How to Make Your Next Half Marathon Better
5. Do something different.
As runners, we’re creatures of habit. We have our favorite races and tend to follow a familiar schedule year after year. Many marathoners do just that: they run two or three marathons a year and might “tune up” with a half marathon. While this might be comforting, it’s a sure path to a plateau. If you identify as a marathoner, spend the early part of your training cycle working on your speed and running 5Ks and 10Ks. This will help you to work on your weaknesses and become more well-rounded. On the flip side, if you tend to stick to shorter events, try training for a half marathon—or even a marathon—and working on your aerobic endurance, which will help improve your ability to maintain faster speeds for longer.
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6. Switch up your surfaces!
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Should you hire a financial adviser or financial planner? Or maybe you know enough about stocks to pick your own and you are considering just going it alone and buy stocks with a discount broker instead? Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of each decision.
What Does a Financial Adviser Do?
A financial adviser is a person that will help you with investment advice, insurance planning and various other financial decisions that you will have to make throughout life. The goal of a financial planner is to balance the use of stocks, bonds, options and other financial instruments to meet the client’s financial needs and manage their level of risk tolerance. Often a financial planner will earn a fee from the products that their client uses when they broker a deal. There are also full service brokers that act as financial planners in the area of investments only. If you need a will, estate planning, or have a retirement goal, a financial planner can handle all of the leg work that it takes to get things set up properly.
What Does a Discount Broker Do?
A discount broker is the middle man between you and the exchange. They provide no investment advice and simply place your stock trading orders and charge a discount commission. In the past, only the wealthy who could afford the fees of a full service broker had access to the markets. Now, with the advent of discount brokers, almost anyone can invest in the markets. A discount broker will offer personal accounts, retirement accounts and provide trade execution for you.
Benefits of Having a Financial Adviser
A financial adviser is good to have if you do not know much about where to get started and you want to have someone invest for you. There are various products that you should be able to get from one financial adviser. Mostly they will be promoting the mutual funds that their company encourages them to push but often you can find an independent fee only financial planner that has no arrangements to sell certain investment or financial products. There are also financial advisers that only accept a percentage of assets under management. A financial adviser could be beneficial to you if you prefer to hire someone to make financial decisions on your behalf.
Benefits of Using a Discount Broker
If you know how to do your own research, using a discount broker could be very beneficial to you. In comparison to a financial adviser, a discount broker only charges a commission when a buy or sell is made. There are usually no fees to open an account or put funds with the broker. Because they do not make decisions for your account they are not responsible for losses. A discount broker could also offer general investing education. A really good discount broker will provide you with everything you need to learn a lot on your own. You should be able to watch webinars, read informative posts all while getting the best trade execution prices.
How About Having Both?
Why not just hire a financial adviser and also continue to place your own trades with a discount broker? I am not sure that would be too efficient but it could save you some money. At the end of the day it really depends on whether you are looking to save money or make money. Depending on your skill set and knowledge, you could save money with a financial adviser or a discount broker.
Do you have a financial adviser? Would you recommend a financial adviser to others?
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Introduction About Interview
Everybody at some time in his life, mostly on more than one occasion, experiences what is known as being interviewed. Though it may sound a simple question, our starting point must be: what is this event that we call an interview? How do we distinguish it from other interactions with people? Perhaps it can be better described as a set of circumstances which add up to what we call an interview. The circumstances that can be summarised as an act of interview are:
1. Two or more people in a formal or semi-formal situation
3. A specific purpose for meeting which is known to all concerned
4. A structure is followed
5. One or more persons take the controlling role (interviewer), the other taking the responsive role (interviewee)
6. Usually seated across a table
7. Usually pre-planned, preferably by both sides
8. Awareness to both sides that an interview is taking place
The above describes what we expect of an interview. This is what distinguishes an interview from a conversation, discussion or group meeting, even when the group con sists of only two people.
There are different occasions on which an interview can occur. These may include:
- An employment selection/panel
- A promotion/panel
- A job appraisal review
- A reprimand or disciplinary hearing
- A grievance hearing
- An information-seeking interview
- An opinion-finding interview (door-to-door research)
- A counselling interview
- An employment termination/exit interview
- A planning interview
An interview is by far the most commonly used method for assessing a person’s suitability. The whole direction of a life may be altered by success or failure in an interview of say half an hour. The outcome is equally important for the organisation also. If they make a bad decision, they may be stuck up with an unsuitable employee for years.
In view of the significance of this act of interview, it is reasonable to ask whether or not an interview is a good way of selecting people. Interview may not be a foolproof exercise. It may be that the same candidate is rated totally different by different interview boards.
But of all the tools of selection available, by far it is the best to evaluate and judge properly the qualities and capabilities of a candidate if supplemented by a written exam. It is the most acceptable valid tool in the process of selection.
People attending interviews are quite unaware of what sort of questions are typically asked and why interviewers ask questions of that sort. For a candidate who is just out of college, it is like putting him into an exam where he knows the subject but not the syllabus. The result is that many of them come out of the interview having a feeling of bewilderment, resentment and regret that they did not put themselves across better or did not do themselves justice.
As far as this book is concerned, it mainly deals with interviews intended for selection of candidates for a job in an organisation, under Central/State government, Public sector and Private sector companies. It relates to how and why interviews are used and different types of questions asked. It gives detailed and structured guidance on preparing for it, improving personality, presenting the best foot forward and self-review after it. It is hoped that it will enable the reader to take a more positive and active role in the interview.
Definition of Interview
An interview may be defined as a meeting at which somebody applying for a job/position is asked questions in order to find out if he is suitable for it. It is a meeting in order to assess whether a candidate possesses knowledge, tact, drive, mental alertness and self-confidence.
It determines whether the candidate has a quality of critical faculties of assimilation, clear and logical exposition, balance of judgement, variety and depth of interest, ability for social cohesion, leadership qualities, integrity and intellectual ability. It is an additional test at which personal qualities, particularly behaviour, habits and to some extent character, which otherwise cannot be decided in the written examination, are assessed.
Interview is a natural, directed and purposive conversation intended to bring out the natural personality traits and mental qualities of an individual. It assesses the intellectual curiosity, capacity for leadership, mental and physical stamina, integrity of character, powers of practical application and similar other qualities of the individual. These personality traits are not ascertained by direct questions and answers, but are inferred from the responses of the candidate during the course of the interview.
Meaning of Interview
The meaning of an interview is to bring out the experience, skill and intelligence of the candidate including initiative. Good expression is nature’s gift. Technique of human relationship stands behind the art of successful interview. Most of the successes in life are won by men who possess, in addition to their knowledge, the ability to talk we with people, win them to their way of thinking, and sell themselves and their ideas.
The ability to speak is a shortcut to distinction. A man who can speak correctly, who can present himself well, is usually given credit out of all proportions to what he really possesses. This is one of the reasons why brilliant but poor boys do better than bright but rich boys. Far from being a handicap, lesser facilities in life, to a certain extent, is an advantage.
The meaning of an interview is to bring out attitude rather than facts. It is a key to find out the same through the candidate’s expressions and inherent sentiments, his biases rather than his knowledge. The context and tenor of the interview brings out the man in him.
An independent-minded person may not be the most suited to adjust to the demands of job responsibility. His independent handling and different approach may not find correlation with the working atmosphere of the organisation and its goal. No doubt, an interview’s meaning is to bring out a leader out of men. The leader’s approach should be to build congruence between the problems faced by the members/organisation and its charted path goal.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scholars Program
Analysis and Training for Defense of Biological and Digital Threats
Lead Institution: University of Texas at San Antonio
PI: Bernard Arulanandam, Ph.D.
Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security
Biological and digital threats are distinct and significant concerns for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the broader homeland security enterprise. Biological threats include bacterial and viral pathogens classified under categories A, B and C. They can cause widespread and global diseases either through natural exposures or deliberate release of engineered, trojanized or weaponized specimens in bioterroristic attacks. If undetected, infection with these agents can have devastating consequences for public health and national stability. To prevent the spread of disease, defensive countermeasures require coordinated, timely and informed regional, national and global responses. Funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – 2014 Scientific Leadership Award (SLA), this program seeks to advance the quantitative assessment of these threats through advanced research and strategic workforce development.
With respect to student education and faculty development, this program will:
- Attract, recruit, and educate high performing undergraduate students interested in genomic epidemiology, biosurveillance, cyber security, and/or digital forensics.
- Provide formal, paid internships with key organizations that serve as centers of gravity in the areas of biological and cyber security defense.
- Establish an annual pipeline of 6-9 well qualified, well-educated, financially supported students each year to serve and contribute to the homeland security enterprise.
- Actively and formally involve undergraduate “DHS Scholars” at UTSA in research projects supported by the grant.
- Establish and/or leverage existing collaborative relationships for research, education, and student internships between UTSA and DHS Centers of Excellence. (1) The National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD), and (2) The Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA).
With respect to research, this program specifically will:
- Develop a common threat metric assessment system for biological and digital threats, which provides a common scale along common dimensions pertaining to both threats.
- Develop a quantitative measurement process specific to malware and botnet threats that feeds into the common threat metric assessment system.
- Develop a quantitative measurement process specific to biological threats that feeds into the common threat metric assessment system.
- Improve cloud based informatics capabilities that are needed to support both biological and digital threat assessment activities.
- Design adaptive software architecture of the threat surveillance system that allows addition, deletion, and replacement of volatile modules at runtime.
The DHS Scientific Leadership Award Program helps develop enduring homeland security science and engineering research and education programs at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) by supporting the development of homeland security science and engineering teaching initiatives, curriculum development and scholarships. These awards support the development of enduring educational and research capabilities within the MSI communities, which include Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges and Universities. Each Scientific Leadership Award recipient is required to partner with a DHS Center of Excellence.
** DHS Cohort #3 is scheduled to start Fall 2018 with the program application process anticipated to open in early Spring 2018. **
DHS Funded Scholars Cohort #2 | 2017-2018
Justin Ralph Baldovino Guerra
DHS Funded Scholars Cohort #1 | 2016-2017
Sarah Connelly, Major: Biochemistry, Dept: Chemistry
Kamren Hollingsworth, Major: Microbiology and Immunology, Dept: Biology
Benjamin Sandoval, Major: Computer Science, Dept: Computer Science
Richard Avelar, Major: Computer Software Engineering, Dept: Computer Science
Bridgette Findley, Major: Computer Science, Dept: Computer Science
Angela Evans, Major: Information Systems, Dept: Information Systems and Cyber Security
Briana McFadden, Major: Business and Information Systems, Dept: Information Systems and Cyber Security
Sohail Moiz, Major: Information Systems and Cyber Security, Dept: Information Systems and Cyber Security
DHS Faculty Mentors
Dr. Rajendra Boppana, Professor, Dept: Computer Sciences
Dr. Nicole Beebe, Associate Professor, Dept: Information Systems and Cyber Security
Dr. Mark Eppinger, Assistant Professor, Dept: Biology
DHS Early Career Awardees
Dr. Xiaoyin Wang, Assistant Professor, Dept: Computer Sciences
Dr. Palden Lama, Assistant Professor, Dept: Computer Sciences
Dr. Rohit Valecha, Assistant Professor, Dept: Information Systems and Cyber Security
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America’s policies under the Donald Trump White House are likely to hurt Africa. Nations on the continent should aim to diversify their products away from exporting raw materials, foster home-grown small and medium enterprises and intensify intra-Africa trade. They should also diversify their global trading partners.
Donald Trump’s election as US President is likely to make the world’s biggest economy more inward-looking, more protectionist and acting more unilaterally in global affairs.
The world may potentially become more dangerous if Trump implements some of his policy statements issued during his presidential election campaign.
Early this year, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) rated a forthcoming Trump presidency as one of the top 10 highest global risks, warning he could disrupt the global economy, and increase political and security tensions.
The EIU rated a Trump presidency at the same level of a risk as “the rising threat of jihadi terrorism destabilising the global economy”.
Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama has pursued a global strategy of positioning the US at the head of a rule-based world order, pushing US-style liberal democracy, globalised free trade and a United Nations-based multilateralism, which developing countries have criticised for favouring the US and industrial countries to the disadvantage of developing countries.
It is very likely that Trump may disrupt the Obama legacy.
Trump has threatened to curtail trade with especially China, with which the US runs a trade deficit. If the Trump-led US does indeed restrict trade, it will undermine the global economy, slowing growth. US economist Paul Krugman has already warned that the Trump presidency may trigger a global recession.
A slowing global economy will undermine growth in African economies. African economies are heavily dependent on a growing global economy, which in turn increases the chances of industrial and developing countries buying African resources.
Trump has vowed to introduce a “defensive” 45 per cent tariff on Chinese imports, lodge trade complaints against the Chinese dragon at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and declare China a currency manipulator.
If Trump retaliates against China, it will not only undermine growth in the Chinese economy, but growth in other countries too, especially Africa and emerging markets.
The past year has already seen African economies, especially those that are commodity exporters, slowing down because of a slowdown in the Chinese economy, which has been the largest buyer of African commodities.
A further slowdown in the Chinese economy, this time triggered by Trump policies, will depress China’s buying of commodities – which may in turn cause further shocks to African economies.
Trump, if he implements what he promised during the presidential campaign, could trigger a trade and currency war between the US and other countries. In 2010, then Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega warned that some countries, particularly the US, the EU and Japan, manipulate the value of their currencies to improve their export competitiveness.
The former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has in the past rightly warned that the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy was causing spillovers in emerging markets, with seesawing capital flows, volatility and the destabilizing of financial markets.
For example, the US quantitative easing policy has kept the value of the dollar strong compared to emerging currencies such as the South African Rand, the Brazilian Real and the Turkish Lira.
A currency war between China and the US is likely to plunge the globe into recession, which, again, is detrimental to Africa.
China’s ruling Communist Party-controlled Global Times newspaper last week warned that Trump would be “naïve” to launch a trade war against China. “If Trump wrecks Sino-US trade, a number of US industries will be impaired”, the newspaper said in an editorial.
The Global Times warned that any new stiff tariffs under a Trump presidency would ellicit “counter-measures” from Beijing.
China is the largest holder of US treasury notes and therefore the largest holder of US debt. Although it is unlikely that China will dramatically off-load its holdings of US debt, beyond its regular, controlled selling of US debt over the past years to support its currency, the Yuan, this could be one of the “counter-measures” envisaged by Beijing.
Trump has suggested he would adopt an “America first” trade policy and renegotiate all foreign trade deals. Trump has threatened to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), pushed by his predecessor, which involves a new trade treaty between the US and 11 countries in Asia, South America and the south Pacific, excluding China.
The TPP was forged by the US to counter the rising economic power of China. Trump during his election campaign said it took jobs from the US. The TPP still needs to be ratified by the US Congress.
Trump also insisted on leaving the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) that came into effect in 1994 and involves the US with Canada and Mexico. Trump argues that Nafta outsources US jobs to Mexico.
This will mean that the current African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which includes 38 African countries in trade with the US, allowing some African products to enter the US duty-free, may also be open for review.
Trump has been very critical of development assistance to developing countries. George W. Bush introduced the AIDS program, the Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), which has channelled considerable amounts of money into African healthcare.
The US has promised to contribute $13.2 billion or 32.5 per cent of the $40 billion donor funds pledged to fund the 2016 programs of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Such programs and donor pledges may be reviewed by a Trump presidency.
Trump may also be less keen to support African civil society – which may weaken civil society attempts to strengthen African democracy. If Trump continues to vilify Muslims, it will strengthen the hands of Muslim fundamentalists in Africa, increasing terrorist activities.
The EIU has warned that Trump’s “militaristic tendencies towards the Middle East (and ban on all Muslim travel to the US) would be a potent recruitment tool for jihadi groups, increasing their threat” in the Middle East, as well as Africa.
Trump has promised to introduce stricter immigration rules. This will make it harder for Africans to enter the US, whether to study or to seek refuge from autocratic African governments.
Africa contributes 3.8 per cent of the globe’s greenhouse gas emissions – yet it stands to lose the most because of climate change caused by consumption in industrial countries. UN Chief Ban Ki-moon says 36 of the 50 countries most affected by global warming are African.
Oxfam says that in Africa this year, an additional 40 million people are facing hunger because of climate change and the El Niño phenomenon. The US is one of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters.
Trump has denied that climate is a threatening issue. There is a fear that Trump would withdraw the US from the global climate deal, undermining its goals.
In 2015, nations cobbled together the Paris Agreement which set an objective of limiting average global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), by reducing planet-heating greenhouse gases from burning oil, coal and gas.
The UN Environment Programme estimates that funding for developing countries alone to adapt their economies to cope with climate change will cost between $280 and $500 billion per year by 2050. Adaptation to climate change includes anything from farmers in dry areas moving to places where water is available, replacing current crops with drought-resistant ones and building walls to protect low-laying cities against flooding from rising tides.
President Obama introduced a series of projects to ease the impact of industrial country-induced climate change on Africa. Off these, the largest one is the $7 billion Power Africa project, which will provide power from renewable energy to six African countries. Support for sustainability of these climate change initiatives now hangs in the balance.
Last year, a report by Cambridge University’s Centre for Science and Policy, authored by David King, Daniel Schrag, Zhou Dadi, Qi Ye and Arunabha Ghosh, pointed to the devastating consequences of climate change, warning it will lead to the collapse of many states and with it the rise of terrorism, a global shortage of food and mass migration.
What should African countries do? It may be that in power, Trump will ease up and become more pragmatic in his dealings with the world.
Nevertheless, African countries will have to diversify their products away from exporting raw materials, but spin-off manufactured goods from these, and at the same time foster home-grown small and medium enterprises that can produce the small manufacturers Africans need.
Africans will have to trade more with each other. African countries will also have to diversify their global trading partners. They will have to govern their politics, economies and societies better – in order for their economies to be taken seriously by both industrial and emerging powers.
* William Gumede is Chairperson, Democracy Works Foundation. He is the author of Restless Nation: Making Sense of Troubled Times (Tafelberg). A shorter version of this article first appeared in The African Independent, Johannesburg.
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Did you know that urinary tract infections or diseases affect both women and men? UTI’s can put men at risk for prostate illness as well. The British Journal of Nutrition recently published a study where research followed 42 men with lower urinary tract disease. They found that the men also had elevated PSA and non-bacterial prostatitis. The researchers assigned the men to take either a supplement with 1,500 mg per day of dried powdered cranberries or a placebo.
The researchers tracked the men for six months while they took either a powdered cranberry supplement of 1,500 mg a day or a placebo, and then evaluated them with the International Prostate Symptom Score. This test evaluates urination, average flow, total volume, and post-void residual volume. The men taking cranberry showed significant improvement. There was no improvement in the control group. It makes common sense that if cranberries help wipe out UTI’s, it’s responsible that they would also help your prostate as well. Also, the men who took the cranberry supplement experienced lower PSA levels. It is likely that one will have to take 1,500 mg of dried cranberry powder in order to have effective results as did the men in this study, a dose that is easily obtainable both in health stores and online.
There are many ways to incorporate cranberries into your diet. It’s not just an American traditional Thanksgiving side dish. Cranberries can be added at any time throughout the year. Dried cranberries especially are delicious in salads and baked goods. Swap out your usual raisins for cranberries. Another way to incorporate cranberries into your daily diet is by adding them to smoothies. Frozen cranberries are available all year round. both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory phytonutrients. It’s also worth noting that cranberries are a very good source of vitamin C and a good source of vitamin E, two pivotal antioxidant nutrients. And in addition, they are a very good source of the mineral manganese, which is needed for proper function of some forms of the enzyme superoxide dismutase.
How do you incorporate cranberries in your diet? Please share…
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Content Design and Development
Insignia Training Partners uses a development methodology that provides the framework upon which all content and development projects are based. This methodology is scalable to meet specific project requirements, development technology to be used and timelines. It is rooted in process and tools that allow development of content in a standardized and efficient manner.
Our instructional design principles focus on results-oriented learning. The following are four core elements for results-oriented learning:
- Performance-based objective. The learning objectives are tied to on-the-job performance requirements, are measurable and align with our clients’ business outcomes.
- Meaningful content. We target the essential knowledge and skills needed to improve the effectiveness of our clients’ learners.
- Relevant context. We help learners understand why the training is important, and why we engage them in solving real-life problems and in practicing job essential skills.
- Learner-centered experiences. Learning environments that are inviting, easy to use, interesting and conducive to learning styles. We use engaging graphics and media, dynamic interactions and scenarios such as case studies, simulations, learning games and hands on practice.
In additional to our instructional design principles, results oriented learning also requires a systematic process for the design and development of content. We follow a five step process to ensure a quality deliverable to our clients.
- Understand learner and performance need
- Design learning solution
- Develop learning experiences
- Assure learning effectiveness and quality
- Deploy the learning solution
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What does the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) do?
The RHA gives each person a fundamental right to make individual decisions about their own reproductive health. This includes the fundamental right to use or refuse reproductive health care, including contraception (i.e. birth control), sterilization, abortion, birthing decisions, and maternity care.
- What does it mean to have a “fundamental right”? A fundamental right is one that the government cannot interfere with except in certain narrow situations. Under the RHA, a person can sue the State of Illinois or local governments like cities and counties if they improperly deny, interfere with, or discriminate against the person’s fundamental rights to make their own reproductive health decisions.
- What type of reproductive health decisions are protected? The RHA protects all individual decision-making in the area of reproductive health. This includes decisions about reproductive health care, like:
- Deciding to use or refuse contraception (birth control) or sterilization.
- Deciding what type of birth control to use, if any.
- If pregnant, deciding whether to give birth or have an abortion.
- Making health care decisions about preventing pregnancy, terminating pregnancy, managing pregnancy loss, or how to improve maternal health or birth outcomes.
- When giving birth, making decisions like whether to have an induction, epidural anesthesia, or cesarean surgery.
- Are there any limits on when medical professionals can perform abortions in Illinois? Health care professionals who provide abortion care must follow the accepted standards of clinical practice. If a health care professional finds that a fetus is viable, they may only perform an abortion when necessary to protect the patient’s life or health (including both physical and emotional health). These decisions depend on each pregnant person’s specific circumstances and the health care professional’s professional judgment, based on accepted standards of clinical practice.
- Can a pregnant person be punished for doing something that could harm their pregnancy? The RHA says that the government cannot prosecute or punish a person for something that they either did or did not do during their pregnancy just because of the harmful impact the government claims this has had or will have on either the pregnancy or the pregnant person’s own health.
- Does the RHA apply to health care providers with religious objections to providing abortion or birth control? The RHA does not change the existing Illinois law (the Health Care Right of Conscience Act) that permits health care providers to refuse to provide services to which they have religious objections. The Health Care Right of Conscience Act lets providers refuse to offer these services as long as they follow protocols to ensure that patients are given all relevant information to access the care they need.
The RHA requires that the government treat abortion, contraception and maternal care like all health care, with regulations that reflect current medical standards.
- What does it mean to treat reproductive health care like all other health care? The RHA requires that types of reproductive health care are not singled out for special restrictions where there is not a good medical reason for it. For example, some states require all abortions to be performed in facilities that are mini-hospitals, even though there is no medical reason for it and abortions are very safe procedures. The RHA removed language from Illinois law that would single out abortion for unfair treatment. If the government creates special requirements that limit people’s ability to make reproductive health decisions or their access to reproductive health care like abortion, birth control, or maternity care, it could be sued in court and required to show compelling evidence to justify the requirement.
The RHA requires private health insurance plans in Illinois to cover abortion like they do other pregnancy related care.
- What does this abortion coverage requirement in the RHA mean? If a private health-insurance policy covers pregnancy-related care, then it must also cover the costs of abortion. Any deductible, coinsurance, waiting period, or other cost-sharing limit that applies to abortion cannot be higher than what the policy requires for other pregnancy care. A policy cannot otherwise impose any restriction or delay on coverage for abortion.
- Does the insurance coverage requirement apply to all insurance policies? No. It only applies to individual and group accident or health insurance policies that cover pregnancy-related care. Certain categories of insurance plans, such as some multi-state plans, are not required to cover abortion.
- Does the RHA require employers with conscience objections to pay for abortion coverage in health insurance plans? The RHA does not change the protections that already exist in Illinois law (under the Health Care Right of Conscience Act) for those with moral or religious objections, including organizations that pay for health care insurance, who want to opt out of coverage and have a documented conscience-based objection.
Other frequently asked questions:
- Does the RHA cover nonresidents? The RHA generally applies to all persons in Illinois and to reproductive health care services provided in Illinois, including when residents of other states receive care in Illinois. However, the insurance coverage requirement in the bill only applies to health insurance plans that are issued in Illinois.
- When did the RHA go into effect? The RHA went into effect on June 12, 2019. The insurance coverage requirement applies to policies that are issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in Illinois after June 12, 2019.
- Did the RHA repeal parental notification of abortion for minors? No. When the RHA was introduced in 2019, a separate bill was also introduced to repeal the Illinois law that requires parental notification for minors who are seeking an abortion. That separate parental notice repeal bill did not pass out of the General Assembly that session, but the parental notice law was subsequently repealed by a bill that went into effect in June of 2022.
- If state or local government interferes with or discriminates against my right to make decisions about my reproductive health, who can I contact? If you have questions or concerns about whether your rights protected by the RHA have been violated, share your story with us on the ACLU of Illinois website here. | <urn:uuid:ad1cdd49-c5c4-4bba-b601-d1e8fff61dcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aclu-il.org/en/campaigns/illinois-reproductive-health-act-faq | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941743 | 1,237 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Anyone who can find discounts will benefit from them. Coupons are also great, but only if they can be found. The purpose of this article is to give you a basic understanding of saving money through online shopping. Keep reading for money saving tips.
Shop around when shopping online. You may find that prices for certain items can vary greatly from store to store. To be sure you get the best deal, look at a few different stores to find out their prices, as well as shipping charge. This will allow you to get the best deal you can.
When shopping online, make sure that the online store offers secure checkout. This will help protect your personal information from being stolen. To ensure the site is encrypted look up into your web browser’s URL box. The site is secured if the website starts with https. This stands for hyper transfer protocol secure.
Sign up for the website’s newsletter if they have one. Many times stores will give you a discount or some type of deal when you sign up for their newsletter. Find out if there is a deal associated with signing up for the newsletter at any store you want to shop at.
If you want to buy books online, you’ll get a better deal if you get them used. Depending on the condition you get them in, you may just end up paying a few cents plus shipping. Make sure you read through the description of the book to see if there are any damages you should be aware of.
When shopping online, most places only accept debit or credit cards. Keep this in mind when you are deciding on a site to shop from. If you don’t feel comfortable providing the company with your credit card information, try to find another site. Try to find a site that offers a secure page when you’re adding your credit card information.
Always remember your budget and credit limits when shopping online. The virtual world of online shopping has gotten a lot of people in serious debt. You need to look at online shopping in the same way you look at offline shopping. Never buy items online that you don’t have the cash to pay for.
If you have questions while shopping, look for a live chat function on the online store. Many big brands (and even some boutique stores) now have this functionality. You can chat immediately with a customer service representative to fix any issues or answer any questions before you purchase. That can give you a lot of peace of mind.
When shopping online, always try to keep in mind the price of shipping. Many sites offer free shipping on orders over a certain amount. In the event that you do have to pay shipping, make sure that it is going to fit into your budget after you’ve added everything to your cart. Having a full cart only to find out you cannot afford the shipping is never a fun experience.
You should think about purchasing a prepaid debit card and loading it when you intend to make purchases. This will help you avoid using debit or credit accounts that have a large balance. If someone gets the prepaid card information, there will be nothing on the card for them to take.
Don’t supply too much information. It should be no surprise that a shopping site will need your credit card information in order to bill you, and your address so that you can receive your items. However, use caution if more information is asked. No shopping site should ever need your social security number, and even your birth date may be too much information. Those pieces of information, combined with your credit card number can be used by an identity thief to wreak havoc.
When you are shopping online, be wary of who you do business with. There are many great places to do your online shopping and find great deals, but there are also unscrupulous businesses out there as well. Make sure that the site you are shopping on is secure and a site that you trust.
When shopping online, take the time to search for professional editorial reviews of products as well as user reviews. Unfortunately, some online stores have been paying for people to review their products. With a professional product review, you can double check that the user reviews are accurate. The ranking and reviews of the product should be similar between professional and user reviews.
Do not be swayed by anonymous or excessively emotional reviews when shopping online. When people have a bad experience, they may come and put a overly negative review before they even try to find a resolution with the company. If you see multiple anonymous reviews, you cannot verify they even purchased the product in question.
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Matador U student and contributor Abbie Mood takes the No Impact Week Challenge.
In November of 2006, New York City resident Colin Beavan, along with his wife and daughter, set out to live with no net environmental impact.
Fast forward three years later, add the Huffington Post, and you have No Impact Week. According to the website, the goal is to “demonstrate ways in which small actions in our daily lives can have a profound impact on our world.” Together, they’ve provided a daily guide with steps you can take to lessen your impact over the course of a week. Each day has a different theme.
I’m joining over 4,000 people to take on this challenge to identify what impact my actions (or lack of action) are having, and to find out what areas of my lifestyle I can change to balance out my carbon footprint a bit more.
The Sunday challenge was to not buy anything new (excluding food). Considering I am on a tight budget anyway, this would not be too much of a challenge. The first step for today in the No Impact Guide was to make a list of things you “need” this week, take off the ones you can live without, and find an alternative way to get the rest of the items (second hand, borrow it, make it). I didn’t have a very long list, so this was relatively easy. I’m also trying to jump start my workout regimen, so every time the urge to go to the mall comes up, I’m going to consider a run or bike ride instead.
What about people who do need to buy something new? Luckily, there are plenty of resources available for you to make an earth friendly purchase. Try The Green Guide for Everyday Living for information about making better product choices, or the GreenPages to find a directory of screened and approved green businesses.
“The Sunday challenge was not to buy anything new.”
There is also a non-profit organization called Freecycle, whose members give away stuff they don’t need to people who do need something. The mission statement of this group is to “build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources and eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.” Membership is free and there are close to 5,000 groups globally. If you don’t feel comfortable getting something from a stranger, have a clothing/item swap with your friends.
The next step was to start collecting my trash from the day in a separate (reusable) bag from the regular trash can. Unfortunately, my week’s worth of food runs out right around Sunday, so I conveniently finished the apple juice, cereal, and a box of crackers today. Add in the receipt for the new food I purchased, and the plastic container the pears were in, and my bag is almost full. The good thing is that those items are all recyclable, which I have a separate trash can for already, so I wasn’t too hard on myself for that one.
Day 1 complete. That wasn’t so difficult, although I am a little nervous about tomorrow’s challenge – trash.
Are YOU taking the No Impact Week challenge? If so, share your experiences with us in the comments.
To learn more about Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, check out this article from our archives.
Want to learn more about consumption and its impact? If you do nothing else, watch this video. “The Story of Stuff” is a video by Annie Leonard about our production and consumption patterns and the environmental impact these patterns create. Its fast pace and compelling facts make the 20 minute long video feel like five minutes. | <urn:uuid:8274715b-eb27-469f-af01-c2952903ca3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ph.blueplanet.consulting/1716-matadors-abbie-mood-takes-the-no-impact-week-challen.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945628 | 811 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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